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Tech Policy Podcast

381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith

Aug 1, 2024
59:16

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)

People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone

Happy fun Cold War 2 update

Three holes in the U.S.’ economic strategy against China

How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century

Liberalism is losing the information war

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