The Nerd Reich—The Weekly
What if the “next big thing” out of Silicon Valley isn’t an app—it’s a political project engineered to bypass democracy?
In this episode, Guest Host Mike Madrid sits down with Gil Durán (journalist and author of “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy”) who’s been tracking an increasingly explicit ideology emerging from venture capital and tech power circles that treats democratic governance as a constraint to be engineered around.
Gil explains how what started as odd local political behavior in San Francisco and San Jose led him to a deeper story: a network of ideas…
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