Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

For today's episode, I'm speaking with the writer and sub-stacker,

Noah Smith, about the big topics that I really think folks

should be focusing on in 2024. Obviously we're going to discuss the Trump

versus Biden result we're all certainly going to see this November after the New Hampshire primary.

After that we get into NOAA's areas of expertise.

We focus on the future of war and the lessons from Ukraine

and what that could possibly mean for a conflict in Taiwan.

We then get into industrial policy, manufacturing, and how we can actually implement the goals of

reshoring our select conductor capacity despite all the challenges over the past few years.

Really hope you enjoy this conversation and NOAA is seriously one of my favorite writers on the broad economic, tech, and defense topics we're discussing.

So folks should definitely check in on that,

especially the sections on the arsenal of democracy,

which is an area that I'm increasingly focused on myself.

No. focused on myself. Noah Smith, welcome back to the realignment.

Hey, thanks for having me back.

Okay, Noah, so here is the big idea for this episode.

Obviously, we're recording this the day before the New Hampshire primary,

but at a key level, it's pretty clear

it's gonna be Trump versus Biden.

And that means the year of 2024 is not going to be a year

of big policy debates or big defining issues.

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