Trump and the Tech Oligarchy

Trump’s new tech policy director doesn’t want you to 'trust the science'

American science has lost its credibility, and if it’s not swiftly restored, America will never be great again. That’s the bracing upshot of major new remarks recently delivered by Michael Kratsios, the White House’s new director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.On his second tour of duty in a Trump administration, deeply and extensively plugged in to the tech industry, Kratsios has the outsized authority and influence needed to de…

Capitalism Is Changing, but Not Into “Neofeudalism”

Some left writers have argued that contemporary capitalism is mutating into a form of “neofeudalism” as tech barons run amok. But what we’re actually witnessing is an important shift within rather than a transition from capitalism.

In his new book "California's Counter-Revolution", historian Sylvie Laurent is interested in the techno-reactionary alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump. She goes back to her ...

Trump and the Tech Oligarchy

Trump seems to be destroying America’s innovation system, but he is really skewing it in favor of tech monopolies.

Budget cuts, layoffs of researchers, ideological censorship: the President is weakening the ecosystem that has made the United States the world's leading innovation power.