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Palantir's Peculiar Sales-Pitch

A Republic...if you can creep it

John Ganz
Feb 21, 2025
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Theodor W. Adorno

I have a review out today on Bloomberg.com of The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, the CEO and general counsel of Palantir, the surveillance and data analytics firm founded by Karp and Peter Thiel. Here’s how I begin:

It’s a major complaint of the authors…

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