America Is Losing the Moon

Archer's Line Podcast · Mar 24, 2026 · 6m

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, looking into the future, once wrote that one day the United States would be mainly remembered for one thing: that it was the first nation-state to land humans on the Moon.

That was supposed to be permanent. A defining line in history.

But these days, there are Americans who aren’t aware of that fact. And a disturbing number who still insist it was fake. That alone tells you something has shifted — not just in knowledge, but in confidence, in the sense that big things actually happened and still matter.

Which makes what’s happening right now in…