About this episode
The Washington Roundtable discusses the ideological underpinnings of Elon Musk’s DOGE with the former Democratic operative and San Francisco-based journalist Gil Duran. Duran writes about the so-called cognitive élite, the right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government, on his newsletter The Nerd Reich . This week’s reading: “ The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs ,” by Gil Duran (for The New Republic ) “ Uncertainty Is Trump’s Brand. But What if He Already Told Us Exactly What He’s Going to Do? ,” by Susan B. Glasser “ The Felling of the U.S. Forest Service ,” by Peter Slevin “ Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections ,” by Sue Halpern “ Who Gets to Determine Greenland’s Future? ,” by Louise Bokkenheuser To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker , visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send in feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com with “The Political Scene” in the subject line. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices