Novara FM: Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris
People walk around San Francisco in Make America Great Again hats. Major CEOs endorse Trump. JD Vance is a hit among the crypto whales. So what? It's part, perhaps, of a cultural change in Silicon Valley: a swing decisively to the right in a state famed for its contributions to radical politics, from the Black Panthers to the counterculture. There's no one better to understand this change than Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. He explains to Richard Hames how military tech links the sunny settler colonies of California and Israel, how…
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