A growing coalition of forces — from nationalist politicians and religious theocrats to the world's most powerful technology executives — is dismantling the post-Cold War consensus that the future would be shared, global, and open. What once united Silicon Valley, international institutions, and progressive governments under a common vision of borderless connectivity and universal progress is now being replaced by competing visions of sovereignty, cultural purity, and digital nationalism. The piece traces how these seemingly disparate groups have converged on a shared rejection of multilateralism and pluralism, and what that means for everything from climate cooperation to the governance of artificial intelligence.
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future
