Silicon Valley

America Must Rebuild Its Physical Economy
In order to compete with China and boost growth, the United States must better balance the software and hardware components of its economy.

Toward a Foreign Policy for the Working Class
A foreign policy for the working class is not merely a call to rebuild America’s physical and technological infrastructure but to restore its moral and spiritual foundations. In the third...

Three Cheers for the Military Industrial Complex
As a crucial presidential election looms, with a world on fire and threats of multiple wars dotting the globe, we need to take stock of where America is and where...

The Next Chapter of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI has become the primary driver of the stock market surge in 2023, despite worries and anxieties on Capitol Hill about the technology’s unregulated status. The fear that...

How Silicon Valley Engineered China’s Protest Crackdowns
As an unprecedented protest movement quickly spread to dozens of Chinese cities last fall, calling into question Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authority, the country’s Orwellian surveillance system went into high...

Competing in the 21st Century: Is Geography No Longer Destiny?
According to fourteenth-century Tunisian sociologist Ibn Khaldun and twenty-first-century British archaeologist Ian Morris, “Geography is destiny.” However, others such as American political commentator Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat,...

Will California Feel the Fire from a North Korean Nuclear Blast?
Here’s What You Need To Remember: These various nuclear attack scenarios are not set in stone: North Korea could use a smaller weapon, or the warhead might fail to work, get...

Look Out, Silicon Valley: China Wants to Control Big Tech
Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma has allegedly fallen out with the Beijing government. Several recent articles reported that Ma offended the Chinese authorities by delivering a speech in Shanghai in...

Is Silicon Valley Finished?
California is “America on fast forward,” according to sociologist Manuel Pastor. As he sees it, many of today’s biggest challenges — from climate change to inequality — arrived in the Golden State...

Boom: Apple Sets Orders for Over 2 Million Apple Silicon MacBooks
Next Tuesday Apple will hold an event, its third of the fall, in which it’s expected to unveil its first-ever Mac products equipped with “Apple Silicon,” which will replace Intel...

We Need To Beat China At Tech. Breaking Up Tech Companies Won’t Help.
Facebook and Google have argued that breaking them up would damage US competitiveness with China. Vanderbilt Law Professor — and former advisor to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — Ganesh Sitaraman and former Federal Communications...

No, Diversity Pledges Won’t End Bias in the Workplace
Dozens of companies, from Apple to Zappos, have reacted to George Floyd’s killing and the protests that followed by pledging to make their workforces more diverse. While commendable, to me...