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Laleh Khalili: Defence Tech, 5 June 2025

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and the Future of the West 
by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska.
Bodley Head, 295 pp., £25, February, 978 2 84792 852 5
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War 
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff.
Scribner, 319 pp., £20, August 2024, 978 1 6680 3138 4
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“... cyberspace, outer space and sea-steading as routes of escape from ‘the unthinking demos’. His co-founders include Joe Lonsdale, better known for footing the bill for the ‘anti-woke’ University of Austin (its first cohort matriculated last autumn), and Alex Karp, Thiel’s classmate at Stanford, now Palantir’s CEO ...”

Ranks of Humanity

Thomas Meaney: West of where?, 24 September 2026

The West: The History of an Idea 
by Georgios Varouxakis.
Princeton, 491 pp., £35, September 2025, 978 0 691 17718 2
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“... second term. In The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and the Future of the West, Alexander Karp, the head of Palantir, writes that ‘the West’ is ‘a concept that has been discarded by many, almost casually’. One of the persistent features of the West is that its champions worry it will wither away.While the historical West may ...”

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