Palantir Posts Very Lengthy X Publish Denouncing ‘Vacant and Hole Pluralism’

Accompanied by the reason “we get requested about it rather a lot,” the Palantir X account printed an extended publish on Sunday summarizing The Technological Republic: Onerous Energy, Gentle Perception, and the Way forward for the West, a ebook co-authored by Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and printed just a little over a yr in the past. Nicholas W. Zamiska is the opposite credited co-author.

As a result of we get requested rather a lot.

The Technological Republic, briefly.

1. Silicon Valley owes an ethical debt to the nation that made its rise attainable. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to take part within the protection of the nation.

2. We should insurgent…

— Palantir (@PalantirTech) April 18, 2026

I suppose folks should have been spamming Palantir with requests for a 22-point abstract of a ebook that, based on Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s review in the New Yorker, “reads like an automatic Spotify playlist of the best hits of nationwide decline.” Why anybody would ask for this I do not know, but when that was you, I hope you loved Palantir’s lengthy reply.

The abstract comes with no single thesis, however an image emerges of America as decadent and devoid of a way of chance, in want of a unifying technological-military undertaking to compete with—and presumably kill—our enemies with the assistance of AI, the brand new supreme weapon for a post-nuclear period. No surprises to date, since Palantir overtly pitches itself as an AI-powered death delivery system.

Within the course of, the publish basically says we must always respect our tech leaders as an alternative of being imply and doing cancel tradition to them, and we must always stop performing like all cultures are good when some cultures, Palantir’s publish says, “have confirmed middling, and worse, regressive and dangerous,” whereas others have “produced wonders.”

The ultimate level is that this:

“We should resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hole pluralism. We, in America and extra broadly the West, have for the previous half century resisted defining nationwide cultures within the title of inclusivity. However inclusion into what?”

Affected person and beneficiant readers of conservative thought (or listeners of the Know Your Enemy podcast) will acknowledge plenty of what’s on this Palantir tweet as a hi-tech riff on concepts from twentieth century thinkers like Leo Bloom—somebody who, by the way in which, denied being a conservative. Bloom denounced the training system of his day for devaluing the Western cannon of books and of Western thought typically, a vital wellspring of knowledge in his view.

Equally, Karp, it could or is probably not price mentioning, voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 while many of his friends and business associates abandoned liberalism and became ride-or-die MAGA. However for what it’s price, Karp additionally as soon as claimed to “spend plenty of time speaking to Nazis.”

Nonetheless, at a time when hard-rightists and racists don’t masks their ideology or drape it in euphemism, it’s honest to at the least acknowledge that Karp and Zamiska’s views have the doubtful advantage of being murky.

Palantir isn’t a weblog or publication, although. It’s a protection contractor with a market capitalization of about $350 billion, and it’s at the moment getting what it appears to want for in its X publish. Its AI tools are already being used in wars around the world. A kind of wars is being framed by our president as a clash of civilizations in which one is capable of completely wiping out the other, and just might do so if it doesn’t get its way.

So, assuming it’s meant to be seen as a press release of function at this consequential second in time, Palantir’s X publish is genuinely clarifying.