The Tech Lords are the Sharpest Knives in the Drawer

Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel and the rest of the tech lords are way sharper than Elizabeth Warren and Graham Platner and Scott Pelley and the woke NGO crowd.

Christopher Chantrill | June 16, 2026

I know that experts agree that our liberal and Democratic friends are the sharpest knives in the drawer, because education and credentials.

After all, how would they have got to be the ruling class without intelligence and cunning?

But in the last week, we have all started to wonder.

When the Democrats all sing in chorus about the evils of Elon Musk’s first trillion, as though he were a feudal lord with gold in them thar dungeons, you start to wonder.

When all the Democrats sing in unison about the splendor of tat-laden rich-kid Graham Platner, you ask yourself: really?

When California strangely promotes third-place Nithya Raman to second place in the sharp-as-a-tack post-election-day ballot counting, you ask: really?

When the Brits and the Irish finally start to riot about criminal migrant crime, you wonder how well knightly wonders like Sir Keir would do at a medieval tournament, setting their lances in a medieval joust. That’s what knights were, back in the day: mounted soldiers with fancy names.

Maybe, after a while, the sharp knives get to be blunt.

See, I had a bit of a revelation this week, reading P.J. O’Rourke’s book on Adam Smith. It turns out that the burghers in the medieval towns -- that’s the bourgeoisie to you lefties -- figured out a........

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