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Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes
Citations Needed · Apr 16, 2025 · 1 h 13 min
"Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China," trumpeted The New York Times in 2021. "A New Economic Patriotism Can Help Unite Our Divided Congress," argued Newsweek in 2023. "US cedes ground to China with 'self-inflicted wound' of USAid shutdown, analysts say," cautioned The Guardian in 2025. In recent years, we've been exposed to the latest version of a centuries-old…