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The Making of a Techno-Nationalist Elite - American Affairs Journal

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By naming their new book The Technological Republic, Palantir executives Alexander Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska gesture toward America's distinctive technological and political heritage. The book comes at a unique juncture in Silicon Valley’s history. Its leaders have awoken to their status as a distinct social elite but remain uncertain as to what obligations that status carries. Their old “Californian Ideology,” half libertarian fantasy and half globalist prophecy, has collapsed. What creed will take its place, however, is not clear...

Winter 2025 / Volume IX, Number 4 REVIEW ESSAY The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West Alexander Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska Crown Currency, 2025, 320 pages A merica has gifted mankind two great patrimonies. The first is a familiar set of institutions and ideals. These are crystallized in our civic catechism, captured in certain phrases: “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” or “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” The institutions (constitutions, legislatures, courts, and so forth) that realize these ideals have had immense gl

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