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<title><![CDATA[David Goldman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19224.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Goldman]]></description><category domain="19224">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Iran Has Lost Significant Control of the Strait of Hormuz]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/iran-has-lost-significant-control-of-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA2aoPd9</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz has become the focal point of the Iran war. Over the past several months, both Iran and the United States have claimed the upper hand '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and the competing rhetoric has caused'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' considerable confusion and doubt.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wait...How Much Oil Is Actually Leaving the Persian Gulf?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/business/oil-market-strait-of-hormuz-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A debate is brewing in the oil market: Is the Strait of Hormuz way more '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'open'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' than we thought?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oil Industry Analysts Are Eating a Lot of Humble Pie]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-trump-caused-the-biggest-oil-shock-in-history-and-got-away-with-it-for-now/ar-AA26vyhI</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the biggest supply shock in history, the oil market turned out to be significantly more flexible than most experts anticipated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Venezuela's Massive 303 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-says-us-is-taking-control-of-venezuela-s-oil-reserves-here-s-what-it-means/ar-AA1Tv4Wi</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump on Saturday said the US would take control of Venezuela'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s massive oil reserves and recruit American companies to invest billions of dollars to refurbish the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gutted oil industry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Turned the Tide in Trade Negotiations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-trump-turned-the-tide-in-his-trade-war/ar-AA1J8Ilz</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has pulled off an impressive feat: He is raising tariffs on some of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most important trading partners, and the world is largely'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' cheering the agreements'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as victories.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neocons Lost Ukraine and Want To Blame It on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2025/02/the-neocons-lost-ukraine-and-want-to-blame-it-on-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Betrayed!,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' shouts the headline in Der Spiegel, Germany'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top left-wing news outlet.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China as It Is]]></title>
							<link>https://lawliberty.org/china-as-it-is/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans imagine that inside every Chinese person is an American struggling to get out. But China defies Western categories.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Continues To Shift Exports to Global South]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/china-continues-to-shift-exports-to-global-south/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China's exports grew 10.7% year-on-year in December, outpacing November's 6.7% gain and beating analyst forecast of 7.3% growth. Restocking in]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make Europe Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/make-europe-great-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[European self-defense depends on conservative parties, not liberal cowards.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make Peace and Rebuild America's Industrial Base]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/features/what-trump-should-do-if-he-wins/make-peace-and-rebuild-americas-industrial-base/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My advice to Trump should he win the 2024 election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Poetry Save a Nation?]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/can-poetry-save-a-nation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our memory, our identity, and our everyday speech are inextricably bound to the poetic traditions of our people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Our Economy Totalitarian?]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/is-our-economy-totalitarian/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wokeness in education and hiring presents the very real threat of the loss of a free and dynamic economy in the United States.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Votes Against the Ukraine War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/europe-votes-against-the-ukraine-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Sunday's elections, the continent's national-conservative parties took an important step forward, breaking out of their narrow focus on immigration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America as Seen From Budapest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/america-as-seen-from-budapest/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[J'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'nos Zoltan Cs'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'k surveys America in all its glorious contradiction'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and renders trenchant warnings for our future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Horror and Humiliation in Gaza]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/horror-humiliation-gaza</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The outpouring of hatred for Jews and Israel after October 7 is rooted in the fear of extinction shared by post-Christian and Islamic tribes]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Adams, Two Foundings]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/features/national-conservatism-vs-american-conservatism/two-adams-two-foundings/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://americanmind.org/features/national-conservatism-vs-american-conservatism/two-adams-two-foundings/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charles Kesler'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s indictment of the conflicting elements in National Conservatism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'between religion and secular rationalism; tradition and Constitutionalism; nationalism in the sense of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'shared inheritance as the essence of shared identity and common will'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saving America's Future From the Blob]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/saving-americas-future-from-the-blob/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://americanmind.org/salvo/saving-americas-future-from-the-blob/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How to understand'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and rectify'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the foreign policy disaster of 2024.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How OpenAI Royally Screwed Up the Sam Altman Firing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/19/tech/sam-altman-open-ai-firing-board/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OpenAI'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s overseers worried that the company was making the technological equivalent of a nuclear bomb, and its caretaker, Sam Altman, was moving so fast that he risked a global catastrophe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel's Darkest Day]]></title>
							<link>https://lawliberty.org/israels-darkest-day/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://lawliberty.org/israels-darkest-day/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The terrible events in Israel make clear that the existential urges of the ancient world cannot be erased with the bland brush of modernity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Western Civilization, Chinese Style]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/western-civilization-chinese-style/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://americanmind.org/salvo/western-civilization-chinese-style/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China stands accused of wholesale theft of intellectual property, cited in Senate, House, and Administration reports, at a cost estimated by the FBI at $225 to $600 billion a year. Nonetheless, American corporations with the most to lose from IP theft are eager to augment their research...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America Is Losing the Tech War With China]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/why-america-losing-tech-war-china-206664</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/why-america-losing-tech-war-china-206664]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why AI Can't Think]]></title>
							<link>https://lawliberty.org/why-ai-cant-think/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://lawliberty.org/why-ai-cant-think/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real danger lies not in AI, but in ourselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The American Economy's Wile E. Coyote Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-american-economys-wile-e-coyote-moment/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-american-economys-wile-e-coyote-moment/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The end of the $6 trillion COVID stimulus and the erosion of real earnings by inflation might have put the economy into recession already, but U.S. consumers continue to buy with plastic to make up for lost real earnings. Result: we continue treading air even as the bottom sags beneath...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prisoner's Dilemma: Avoiding War With China]]></title>
							<link>https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/prisoners-dilemma/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/prisoners-dilemma/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Avoiding war with China is the most urgent task of our lifetime. Kevin Rudd has written the year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s best China book, in the vein of Graham Allison'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Destined for War, which I reviewed in these pages ('&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Must We Fight?,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Fall 2017), and Rush Doshi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s The Long Game...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bank Trouble Heralds End of Dollar Reserve System]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/us-bank-trouble-heralds-end-of-dollar-reserve-system/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/us-bank-trouble-heralds-end-of-dollar-reserve-system/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bank crisis not a credit quality problem but stems instead from now-impossible task of financing America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ever-expanding foreign debt]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Causing Contagion]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/causing-contagion/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://americanmind.org/salvo/causing-contagion/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Further monetary tightening at this point will kill the horse and leave the U.S. economy in a prolonged period of weakness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Erdogan Got Back in the Money]]></title>
							<link>https://asiatimes.com/2023/02/how-erdogan-got-back-in-the-money/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://asiatimes.com/2023/02/how-erdogan-got-back-in-the-money/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ukraine war and trade with China have propelled Turkey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s dramatic rise from worst to first among emerging markets]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Market Futurism]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/features/two-cheers-for-milton-friedman/market-futurism/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://americanmind.org/features/two-cheers-for-milton-friedman/market-futurism/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Inez Stepman observes that Milton Friedman failed to foresee the emergence of tech monopolies with powers to suppress free speech rivaling those of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most oppressive states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is America's Strategic Interest in Ukraine?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.hoover.org/research/what-americas-strategic-interest-ukraine</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.hoover.org/research/what-americas-strategic-interest-ukraine]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Ukraine war enters its twelfth month, the military situation remains a stalemate, but a stalemate that gives the political advantage to Russia. If Russia can hold most of the territory in the oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson that it annexed on Sept. 30, 2022,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Digital Age Produces Binary Outcomes]]></title>
							<link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/02/digital-age-produces-binary-outcomes/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Goldman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The digital age produces binary outcomes. Winners tend to win overwhelmingly'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in war as well as in business. The Soviet Union crumbled in the late 1980s when American technology bested Soviet military spending, then estimated at a quarter of GDP. The enormous Russian bet on military...]]></description>
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