How Tech's San Francisco Values Gave Way to the Right

Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co

May 29, 202601:06:45News & Politics

How San Francisco's tech culture went from countercultural idealism to right-wing power, and what it means for the rest of us. Jonathan Weber, editor at large at The New Yorker and author of City on the Edge, joins Eric...

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