David Wallace-Wells

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The Opinions · Is This the Fastest Opinion Shift in American Politics? · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Let's move to the national politics part of it.

And think a little bit and let's talk a little bit about what we're seeing at the national stage.

There is more rhetorical lip service being paid to the risks of AI and to the problems of quote unquote problems of AI data centers.

But it still feels to me somewhat on the margins and not yet cohering into something that looks like a viable policy agenda.

Is that how you see it?

Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, that the sort of political story here makes sense for an out-of-power Democratic Party.

Yeah, exactly, yeah.

But I also wonder where that leads.

I mean, if we imagine some amount of AI backlash at least helping power, say, Democratic majority or majorities starting in 2027, what policy flows from that?

It's also a little bit contradicted by the fact that he's also proposed taking an ownership stake in the same company.

Yes, exactly.

Yes.

I mean, he seems clear that there's energy here, and it seems almost like he's trying out different things to see what sticks.

Or at the very least, was just providing so much more growth than any other sector.

You know, one of the things that I've thought a lot about over the last few months is the Pope's encyclical.

And one of the things that I read in the immediate aftermath of that was just it was a piece in Compact magazine, I think, where it used as a sort of comparison point.

the movement to ban or at least sanction the practice of cloning in the 1990s and the role that the Catholic Church and the Pope had played in organizing a global coalition around that prohibition.

It also reminded me that in the George W. Bush years, there was a movement to ban stem cell research.

It never got to the level of a total federal ban, but there was a ban on federal funding that really changed how much of that kind of research was possible.

And it still felt...

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