381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith

Noah Smith (Noahpinion Substack) discusses techno-industrial competition with China and Russia.Topics include:American industry: we’re #2 :( Allies: no longer a luxuryNEPA sucksA brief lesson about nickelThe death of state capacity: greatly exaggerated?Will information destroy liberalism?Clowns to the left, clowns to the rightHey, let’s *not* be divided and poorLinks:Noahpinion (Substack)People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is goneHappy fun Cold War 2 updateThree holes in the U.S.’ economic strategy against ChinaHow liberal democracy might lose the 21st centuryLiberalism is losing the information war