Nathalie Kitroeff

I should acknowledge at this point that I grew up on Haverford College's campus because my parents taught there.

Indeed.

Peter Thiel, the now very prominent libertarian conservative, now a big Republican donor.

Can you say why?

Because Karp actually seems to me an unlikely pick to be CEO.

He isn't really in the Silicon Valley tech scene at this point, right?

What exactly about what Palantir is up to at this point is Karp passionate about?

It's interesting.

He views preventing terrorist attacks as key to preventing the American public from turning to the far right out of fear.

Okay, and how does this ideological bent, this commitment to defending the West, actually manifest in Palantir's work?

And what is Palantir doing for ICE, at least at the beginning?

How so?

I'm interested, how does Karp, this one-time activist himself, this son of leftists, how does he respond to the outcry on the left over this contract?

Interesting.

He justifies the work Palantir is doing with ICE as very much fitting into this idea of securing the border, something he views as a progressive stance.

Okay, Michael, so by the time of the October 7th attack on Israel in 2023, you'd been interviewing Alex Karp for several years.

So how'd you see him change after that moment?

And how does his really strong reaction to this moment, to these attacks, shape Palantir's work?

And all this is in a context in which we're seeing growing protests on college campuses and elsewhere in the U.S.

over Israel's response to these attacks.