Henry Farrell

“Silicon Valley likes to dress its ambitions in the glistening garb of science fiction from the 1950s, when authors such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke spun tales of humanity spreading through the stars.

A Conversation with Ezra Klein.

“The struggle over regime change is about whether the aspiring authoritarians can subdue civil society.

When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy.

Back in 2022, Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe a cycle that has played out again and again in the online economy.

Political scientists have had remarkably little to say about artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps because they are dissuaded by its technical complexity and by current debates about whether AI might emulate, outstrip, or replace individual human intellig…

With Dan Davies – for the New York Times This has been a good week for America’s crypto interests.

The best way to read Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book is to take the authors at their word.

What happens to politics when the voice of the people blurs together with the voices of self-appointed god-emperors like Elon Musk?

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.