Companies want to operate in the American marketplace, whether to sell their new electric car, or to stream their video service, or whatever. Similarly, from a basic standpoint of economic prosperity, most of us may not work at giant iconic global companies (though many people do), but we all benefit from the fact that innovations tend to come here first. So I mean, I don’t like Donald Trump either, but I doubt anybody in the US will find themselves better off with more and more media and cultural organizations operating under Chinese censorship rules. Or in the book I describe this whole controversy when the Chinese government put incredible pressure on people in the NBA not to say supportive things about Hong Kong protests. With the Chinese box office now bigger than the US domestic box office, Chinese censors have a louder voice in those discussions. One good example comes out of a PEN America report released just a couple weeks ago, documenting how much Chinese censors now influence Hollywood movie production. For those Americans embarrassed (especially during a Donald Trump presidency) by any further attempt to reassert our bigness or to stay “number one,” for those who would prefer to discuss pursuing multilateral alliances or emulating domestic achievements of smaller nations like Denmark or Israel or Singapore, could you give a few examples of how our everyday lives long have benefited from our country’s distinctive stature? ĪNDY FITCH: So let’s say the US faces the threat of losing its singular status as much bigger than all other rich countries, and much richer than all other big countries. Prior to Vox, Yglesias was a columnist for Slate, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a writer for The American Prospect and The Atlantic. He also hosts the political podcast The Weeds, and contributes regularly to NPR’s All Things Considered. Yglesias is the co-founder and senior correspondent for Vox. This present conversation focuses on Yglesias ’ book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger. What gets lost at the municipal level when “we don’t even try to do anything together anymore”? What kinds of “patriotic projects and pursuits of national greatness” might not sound so bad today? When I want to ask such questions, I pose them to Matthew Yglesias. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
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