Dominic Cummings on Elon, Techies in Politics, and New Elitism

Erik Torenberg and Antonio Garcia Martinez sit down with political scientist Dominic Cummings and discuss the San Francisco homelessness complex, the 2024 election, educational polarization, & more.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:19) Francis Fukuyama’ and Walter Kaufmann on liberalism
(05:24) European wokeness explosion
(10:07) The fix SF movement
(14:27) SPONSOR: SHOPIFY
(16:05) SF homeless industrial complex
(17:24) Techies in politics
(21:48) Elon and Israel
(24:15) SPONSOR: VANTA
(25:18) Israel’s PR will never win in the west
(36:01) New elitism
(42:34) Appealing in the 2024 election
(53:43) Abortion laws
(01:00:13) British royals
(01:07:45) Educational and political polarization
(01:18:21) A reformed republican Party
(01:23:00) Can we fix SF?