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The New Legislators of Silicon Valley - The Ideas Letter

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Morozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape public policy, culture, and even…

The New Legislators of Silicon Valley Elon MuskElon Musk addresses the media while seated in front of a SpaceX rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 5, 2018. © Todd Anderson/NYTimes/Redux Evgeny Morozov April 3, 2025 | The Ideas Letter 37 There is a certain disorienting thrill in witnessing, over the past few years, the profusion of bold, often baffling, occasionally horrifying ideas pouring from the ranks of America’s tech elite. Consider the heresies of Balaji Srinivasan and Peter Thiel, who, in celebrating the “ network state ” and seasteading have hatched an escape doctrine for di

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