A few weeks into 2025, Ross Douthat , The New York Times ’ idiosyncratically conservative columnist, interviewed Marc Andreessen: Netscape co-founder, venture capitalist, general Silicon Valley gadabout, and, lately, fixture in Trump-adjacent Washington, where he has reportedly been interviewing candidates for top agency positions and promoting rollbacks of Biden-era cryptocurrency guardrails. O tempora, o mores . Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left