From the free press, this is honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss.

Alex Carp is many things.

A cross-country skier, a long-range shooter, a Tai Chi expert.

He might also be the only man who knows how to wield a sword but doesn't know how to drive.

He's also a collector of extremely prestigious degrees.

His Ph.D. thesis was called called aggression in the life world, the extension

of Parsons' concept of aggression by describing the connection between jargon, aggression,

and culture. At least, I think that's what it's called. He wrote it in German, and I don't

speak a lick of it. Since 2003, he has also been the CEO of Palantir,

a company I find very hard to describe in a single sentence,

but I'll try.

Palantir is a software and data analytics company

that does defense and intelligence work.

If that doesn't work for you,

think of Palantir as a company that both stops terror attacks

while also helping make sports cars go faster

and pharmaceutical companies build better drugs. Carp is also the author of a brand new book

called The Technological Republic, which offers a powerful vision of how Silicon Valley lost its way

and how the future of America and the West hinges on it finding its way

back and fast. It debuted in the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list.

Our conversation was as wide-ranging as Carp's hobbies. We talk about his childhood,

growing up with intellectual activist parents and feeling different from a young age because

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