The latest ROPOD guest, Madeline Hart, gives her insights gained from working on defense at Palantir. Their conversation covers the new role of software in war, the burgeoning role of defense tech startups, where the inefficiencies in the US military originate, and more.

The AI revolution belongs to America, and to the American worker.

We're thrilled today to be launching The Rickover Corpus with Charles Yang and Center for Industrial Strategy The Corpus is a free searchable archive of over 2,500 pages of never before seen speeches, memos, and testimony from Hyman Rickover digitized from the USNA rickovercorpus.org

1/ We are in an undeclared state of emergency. America's adversaries are circling, and the American industrial base that dominated the 20th century is dormant. For the CCP, it is not enough for China to prosper... America must fall. It's time to Mobilize. Coming March 2026.

My great grandfather immigrated to the US in 1917. He had a statue of Columbus installed in his town, taught English classes to immigrants, and founded “I am an American Day” This is the way 🇺🇸

My takeaway from Joel Mokyr: The U.S. either uses competition with China to fuel progress or we accept violence. “Nations that worry about their political standing in the world are more likely to be subject to the "Sputnik effect," the discovery that a society has fallen behind

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani: “The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession” “I think that annoys the fuck out of these people”

The only requirement is WINNING. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth set the tone and pace. I wanted to yell “fuck yeah” more than once. ✊ The Heretics and Heroes inside and outside govt left fired up. As did the forges that will rebuild the Arsenal of Freedom.

When Daddy Karp is mentioned in a Very Serious book