Tag: democracy in america

• Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

  March 16, 2025

  American investor Peter Thiel is involved in several of the intellectual currents I cover – transhumanism and the new eugenics, psychedelics and the FDA, and the rise of the Tech… more ›

• You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

  February 20, 2025

  If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what… more ›

• The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s Big Tech enablers

  November 29, 2024

  “All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.” https://www.status.news/p/nilay-patel-donald-trump-big-tech-interview more ›

• Strong Gods and Demagogues

  November 11, 2024

  Family, faith and nation challenge the open society. In order to better understand the robust staying power of the populist and nationalist narrative in democracies across the West, I have… more ›

• What American Fascism Would Look Like

  May 19, 2024

  It can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of the country. It can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of… more ›

• In The Eye Of The Storm

  April 25, 2024

  Economist, dissident, professor, whistleblower, politician, activist. more ›

• Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

  April 4, 2024

  “I’ll show you where Trump sat and watched the revolution,” Joe Biden said, stepping out from behind his desk in the Oval Office. It was noon on a Wednesday, in… more ›

• Politics and the Future

  December 15, 2023

  If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them https://a16z.com/politics-and-the-future/ more ›

• A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

  December 1, 2023

  There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/ more ›

• Welcome To The ‘Turbulent Twenties’

  May 21, 2023

  Our model is based on the fact that across history, what creates the risk of political instability is the behavior of elites, who all too often react to long-term increases… more ›