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The ‘Bleeding Edge’ bleeds into 2026

Political Theater, Episode 400

From left, Priscilla Chan, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump in the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025.
From left, Priscilla Chan, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump in the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s 2013 novel “Bleeding Edge,” and how its story about the dot-com bubble and 9/11 applies to the present day, with politics and society dominated by AI, technology and venture capitalism firms running wild and the national security apparatus pushing war here, there and everywhere.

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