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Mara Hvistendahl is a freelance reporter and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book, Unnatural Selection. Her new book is The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage.\n\n\u201cIn times of tension, Cold War historians believe that there\u2019s this mirroring that goes on, that we start to behave like the enemy, and that that is the big risk. And I feel like that\u2019s the moment we\u2019re in now.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@MaraHvistendahl\nmarahvistendahl.com\nHvistendahl on Longform\nThe Scientist and the Spy excerpt\n[00:45] The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage (Mara Hvistendahl \u2022 Riverhead \u2022 2020)\n[04:20] "Some People Just Smell Like Republicans" (Village Voice \u2022 Sep 2004)\n[09:36] "Rich Pickings" (Financial Times \u2022 Nov 2007)\n[10:42] Hvistendahl's archive at Science\n[15:20] "Half the Sky: How China\u2019s Gender Imbalance Threatens Its Future" (Virginia Quarterly Review \u2022 Fall 2008)\n[15:20] "Can AI Escape Our Control and Destroy Us?" (Popular Science \u2022 May 2019)\n[16:42] "Meet the Flat-Earthers of the Modern Era" (Popular Science \u2022 Oct 2019)\n[16:44] "Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking" (Wired \u2022 Dec 2017)\n[22:33] "The FBI\u2019s China Obsession" (The Intercept \u2022 Feb 2020)\n[25:37] North by Northwest (1959)\n[30:20] "Some True Information is Impossible to Censor" (Matter \u2022 Oct 2014)\n[41:12] "\u2018If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys\u2019" (Wired \u2022 April 2019)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices