Are scientists only valued when the United States is against a country of equal education? I haven't had much time to read into this, but it feels like the adv

Are scientists only valued when the United States is against a country of equal education? I haven't had much time to read into this, but it feels like the advantage the United States has over other countries in terms of academic institutions has stagnated. Where are the Bell Labs, PARC, Los Alamos Labs of the 21st century? Where are the Neumanns, Heisenbergs, or Einsteins of this era? Probably not here. The agitation of identity politics and growing wave of anti-intellectualism is keeping our best minds apart.