This is an extract from The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska, published by Penguin Random House.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns My new husband gave me a contract and told me to ‘sign here’ — but I refused. It was the best decision of my life.

Jimmy Swaggart, the reverend who rose to prominence during the golden age of televangelism in the 1980s before a prostitution scandal rocked his evangelical empire, has died. He was 90. The television ...