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The Nerd Reich

by Gil Durán

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Fresh Air, NPR · August 10, 2026

Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy

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Journalist Gil Durán examines how a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have developed fringe ideologies — drawn from blogs, manifestos, and private talks — that position democracy as an obstacle to their ambitions, and traces how their vast wealth allows them to translate these ideas into real policy.

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