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So was November 5 a moral catastrophe signaling the death knell of American liberalism or just another election in the turbulent history of American democracy. According to the Brookings scholar Jonathan Rauch (https://www.jonathanrauch.com/) , the Trump-Harris election was both. On the one hand, Rauch argues, wearing his unashamedly liberal cap,…

“There is one winner regarding the most significant story this week,” Keith Teare writes in his That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/p/elon-silicon-valley-and-government) technology newsletter. But, as he explains, there are, in fact, two winners: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech entrepreneurs trusted by Trump to reform and shrink the federal…

In association with our friends at Digital-Life-Design (https://www.dld-conference.com/) (DLD), Europe’s iconic annual tech conference which next January celebrates its twentieth anniversary, we are starting a series of conversations with DLD speakers looking back over the last twenty years. First up is Silicon Valley entrepreneur, speaker and author John Hagel (https://www.johnhagel.com/about/)…

The endless culture wars rage on. In his new book, The War Against the Past (https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Past-Fight-History/dp/1509561250) , the sociologist Frank Furedi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Furedi) believes that unless what he calls “the West” fights for its history, the “grievance entrepreneurs” will take over and undermine all our hard won intellectual freedoms. It’s the…

As the author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-neoliberal-order-9780197519646?cc=us&lang=en&) , the Cambridge University historian Gary Gerstle (https://www.garygerstle.com/) was one of first people to recognize the collapse of neoliberalism. But today, the real question is not about the death of neoliberalism, but what comes after it. And,…

Gary Shapiro is my Pivot Guy. As the longtime CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the organization that puts on Las Vegas’ annual CES, Gary knows a thing or two about pivoting. And now he’s put his pivoting wisdom into a pivotal new book, Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive…

It’s the race that will change the world. In Supremacy (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250361622/supremacy) , one of the FT’s six short-listed (https://www.ft.com/content/27f60ee7-94cc-4098-9f5a-52fbf2f71b39) best business book of the year, Bloomberg columnist Parmy Olson (https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AVYbUyZve-8/parmy-olson) tells the story of what she sees as the key battle of our digital age between Sam Altman’s OpenAI and…

Might November 5 mark a new dawn for both Silicon Valley and America? Palo Alto based serial entrepreneur Keith Teare (https://x.com/kteare/status/1855652547031122403) is ambivalent. In his That Was The Week (https://substack.com/@thatwastheweek) tech newsletter for this week, Keith confesses that while he voted for Harris, he recognizes that the Trump victory probably…

The election is over and, is spite of Trump’s clear victory, America remains as divided as ever. So how to put the country together again? Juliana Tafur (https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/profile/juliana_tafur) , the director of the Bridging Differences Program at UC Berkeley (https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/what_we_do/major_initiatives/bridging_differences) , has been giving this existential question much thought. What…

If there’s a disease that captures the toxic spirit of our times, it’s what the therapist, Vanessa Resier (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/vanessa-m-reiser/?lens=hachette-go) , in her new book, calls Narcissistic Abuse (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanessa-m-reiser/narcissistic-abuse/9781668644782/?lens=hachette-go) . Even the language of this disease - Gaslighting. Love bombing. Hoovering. Triangulating - has become part of the dictionary of life…

War is never pretty, but its privatized high tech future dominated by companies like Palintir and SpaceX is particularly chilling. In Unit X (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Unit-X/Raj-M-Shah/9781668031384) , their FT shortlisted best business book of the year, Raj M. Shah (https://shieldcap.com/team/raj-shah) and Christopher Kirchhoff (https://www.christopherkirchhoff.com/) ’s explain how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley…