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 luxury - NEPA sucks - A brief lesson about nickel - The death of state capacity: greatly exaggerated? - Will information destroy liberalism? - Clowns to the left, clowns to the right - Hey, let’s *not* be divided and poor Links: Noahpinion (Substack) (https://tinyurl.com/asry5zej) People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone (https://tinyurl.com/mvfm5252) Happy fun Cold War 2 update (https://tinyurl.com/msf29mze) Three holes in the U.S.’ economic strategy against China (https://tinyurl.com/7vyb7tzy) How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century (https://tinyurl.com/3zusc46f) Liberalism is losing the information war (https://tinyurl.com/r9duzw72)