Rewind Wednesday rounds out a three-day reflection on the context of US tariffs issued last month. Building up a kind of "energy arms race" with China is of a piece with US Cold War history, so why not spend some time with the paranoia and panic of the mid-century "missile gap"?

Simply put: we do ourselves a grave disservice, whenever we act like conflict is a necessary precondition to innovation. We can and should demand better motivations for socioeconomic reform.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-tenuous-relationship-between