The Audience Problem | Matthew Peterson

Podcast: Plausibly Deniable · Lukas and Saila

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

Matthew Peterson, founder of FORUM and The American Mind, joins Lukas and Saila to discuss the fights inside the Trump coalition, why Silicon Valley hasn't won over the populists, and what right-wing media would look like if it cared about building things. They get into FORUM's Joe Lonsdale–Joe Allen debate, the resentment behind the data-center backlash, AI as empowerment or centralized control, privacy, regulation, and whether the government ends up with its own frontier lab. The conversation also covers Peterson's route through academia, Claremont, New Founding, and Blaze; corporate sponsors and schizophrenic mortgages; winning elections versus po...