The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.'--The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West's culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology's potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats 'Not since Allan Bloom's astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind--more than one million copies sold--has there been a cultural critique as sweeping as Karp's.'--George F. Will, The Washington Post Silicon Valley has lost its way. Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West's dominant place in the geopolitical order. But