The Palantir Guide to Saving America’s Soul | The New Yorker
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Alexander Karp, Palantir’s philosopher-C.E.O., thinks that a restored military-industrial complex can make our country great again.
Save this story Save this story In the spring of 2014, a trans-anarchist Google engineer petitioned the White House to arrest our national decline. The plan was snappy: “1. Retire all government employees with full pensions. 2. Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry. 3. Appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.” Schmidt, then the chairman of Google, was an avatar of technocratic liberalism. Two decades earlier, as the largely unknown C.T.O. of Sun Microsystems, he helped Bill Clinton set up the first White House Web site, and, by the time of the Obama Administration, he served as Si
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