Henry Farrell

Democracy Journal

Reining in Our Tech God-Emperors

April 20, 2025 Democracy Journal

What happens to politics when the voice of the people blurs together with the voices of self-appointed god-emperors like Elon Musk? We are about to ...

Essay

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

April 3, 2025 Foreign Affairs with Abraham Newman

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By ...

Essay

The Reactionary Right is Not a Monolith

April 2, 2025

[new at Inside Story] Just over a week ago, Vance gave a speech at the “American Dynamism Summit,” which made the contradiction clear. As with any politician’s ...

Academic Article

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

March 13, 2025 featured pin Science

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past By Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, ...

Interview

The Silicon Valley canon and malformed publics: Podcast with Max Read and John Ganz

February 27, 2025 John Ganz Max Read

Bringing this all together, the technologies through which we see the public shape how we understand it, making it more likely that we end up in ...

Bloomberg

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

February 21, 2025 Bloomberg featured pin

In 2008, Paul Graham mused about the cultural differences between great US cities. Three years earlier, Graham had co-founded Y Combinator, a “startup accelerator” that would come ...

Essay

This Is How Trump Will Smash the Machine of U.S. Economic Power

February 17, 2025 New York Times pin

Economic security officials worked across administrations, gradually developing grand ambitions of a global order founded on financial sanctions, export controls and development of crucial technologies. ...

Essay

Count the Costs of Cutting Technological Ties with China

January 22, 2025 Weaponized Interdependence

The result of all this is that policy discourse about the United States, China,and technology has careened from one pathology to another: The cheeryglobalism of ...

Academic Article

AI as Governance

January 9, 2025 Annual Review of Political Science

Henry Farrell, “AI as Governance,” Annual Review of Political Science, forthcoming.

Essay

America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs – with Abraham Newman

September 19, 2024 Financial Times with Abraham Newman

Donald Trump complains that they are undermining the supremacy of the dollar. Access the full article here. Henry Farrell (and Abraham Newman), “America Should Think ...

Reining in Our Tech God-Emperors

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

The Reactionary Right is Not a Monolith

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

The Silicon Valley canon and malformed publics: Podcast with Max Read and John Ganz

Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions

This Is How Trump Will Smash the Machine of U.S. Economic Power

Count the Costs of Cutting Technological Ties with China

AI as Governance

America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs – with Abraham Newman

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