Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Palantir Wants to Bring Back the Draft – Mother Jones

The book frames Silicon Valley’s move into military technology as the righteous repayment of a “moral debt” owed to the country that built the tech billionaire class. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.” 

If you read past the post and dig into the book itself, you’ll find that this sentence continues: “the engineering elite must also, Karp said, participate in “the articulation of a national project—what is this country, what are our values, and for what do we stand.” That is to say: Men like Karp should decide what this country is…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/palantir-wants-to-bring-back-the-draft/


 

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