The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington

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The Washington Roundtable discusses the ideological underpinnings of Elon Musk’s DOGE with the former Democratic operative and San Francisco-based journalist Gil Duran. Duran writes about the so-called cognitive élite, the right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government, on his newsletter The Nerd Reich. 



This week’s reading:

  • “The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs,” by Gil Duran (for The New Republic) 
  • “Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do?,” by Susan B. Glasser
  • “The Felling of the U.S. Forest Service,” by Peter Slevin
  • “Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections,” by Sue Halpern
  • “Who Gets to Determine Greenland’s Future?,” by Louise Bokkenheuser


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