Palantir and the Techno-Oligarchs: Honeyed Reason, or Crushing Hegemony?
Western democracies have entered a period dominated by techno-oligarchs, e.g., Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, X-Corp and xAI), Peter Thiel and Alex Karp (Palantir), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta Platforms ex-Facebook) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon). While their achievements are remarkable, there...














