The Republic is a journal published by The Palantir Foundation, featuring commentary and essays on technology, national security policy, and international affairs.
Fall 2025
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Book Review Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization Of Victory; 1793-1815 by Roger Knight (Penguin Group, 2013). As the world order deteriorates, Western policymakers cast about for historical analogies to explain the situation and guide our response. Some see the tense…
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Book Review Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang, 2025 (288 pages) Capitalist versus communist, democratic versus authoritarian, open versus closed: the rivalry between the United States and China is often framed in these binaries. But for…
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Diplomacy today has entered an age defined by artificial intelligence, real-time media, and autonomous systems. AI will not replace diplomacy. But it will fundamentally alter how it is practiced, and who practices it well. The future of diplomacy will hinge…
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China spent the last 30 years making itself an indispensable exporter of strategic raw materials. Today, China is the primary producer for 26 of 50 minerals identified as critical to the United States.1 That is leverage that it can wield…
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In 2000, Yahoo found itself the target of French ire. In the United States, someone was using Yahoo to sell Nazi memorabilia — an act illegal in France — prompting a French court to demand the search engine’s removal of…
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Of America’s four principal geostrategic adversaries – China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea – two are petrostates highly dependent on oil revenues to fund their national ambitions. Petroleum comprises 20 percent of Russia’s GDP and 25 percent of Iran’s GDP,…
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Autonomous Systems and Maneuver Warfare A quarter of the way through the 21st century, it is now clear that robotic war at scale is key to prevailing in armed conflict. In Ukraine, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are now a defining…
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President Trump adumbrated a historical shift in American politics when, upon his return to the White House in January 2025, he invited the wealthiest, most famous entrepreneur in the world, Elon Musk, to form the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).…
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Berlyn Brixner. Nuclear Explosion, Trinity Test Site (Reproduction of Photographs Marked “SECRET”). New Mexico, July 16, 1945. J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, Manuscript Division (042.01.02).
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The Copyright Office’s recent pre-publication report on generative AI training has sparked a flurry of headlines.1 Yet many of these reactions miss the forest for the trees.2 The true and alarming significance of the report’s backward-looking interpretation of copyright law…
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Washington has made it clear that retaining AI dominance over China is both an economic and national security imperative. In November 2024, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended a “Manhattan Project-like program” to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)…
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The modern battlespace now includes the cognitive and digital domains where narratives shape public perception, policy, and national security. The United States may recognize the need for an updated information warfare (IW) strategy to prevail in this arena, but it…
