Replay 2026 / talk 23
Eric Weinstein and Balaji · 29:45
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, former managing director of Thiel Capital and host of The Portal podcast. He joins Balaji Srinivasan for a fireside chat on the state of Western institutions.
Website: https://ericweinstein.org
OUTLINE
1:21 - Why it's so difficult to found new institutions
11:38 - When was peak America?
13:28 - A very simple quantitative theory of the last 100 years
18:21 - Upstream of Trump is Twitter, and upstream of Twitter is the internet
27:59 - World War II gave the West an incredible endowment
29:02 - Right now it's a race for the exits
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