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Podcast: Novara Media
Episode: Novara FM: Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris
Description: People walk around San Francisco in Make America Great Again hats. Major CEOs endorse Trump. JD Vance is a hit among the crypto whales.
So what?
It’s part, perhaps, of a cultural change in Silicon Valley: a swing decisively to the right in a state famed for its contributions to radical politics, from the Black Panthers to the counterculture.
There’s no one better to understand this change than Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
He explains to Richard Hames how military tech...