I will speak if invited at Columbia University - but wearing a self-designed "Liberate Vichy Columbia" t-shirt.

This piece makes me think again that a "Market Liberalism 101 -Here Is Why Institutions and Pluralism Matter Even (and Maybe Especially) If You Consider Yourself Right Wing" Silicon Valley bootcamp, with required readings from Hume, Popper, Gellner etc would be a possibly good thing. RE:

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I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying i...

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W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.

) and I have a new piece in [@wired.com](

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) on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire [amzn.to/3PbIyqX](

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) , and Cory Doctorow's idea of enshittification to explain how the Trump administration is trying to remake the world. [The Enshittification of Americ...](

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The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

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