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Richard Vigilante

Richard Vigilante is the editorial director of Gilder Publishing, and a former partner at Whitebox Advisors, a Minneapolis-based hedge fund.

I Got Surgery to Restore My Hearing. I Regret It.

Speech-to-text and AI-assisted hearing aids are erasing the line between deaf and hearing.

December 2, 2025

Richard Vigilante

Why the U.S. China Hawks Are Hurting the U.S.

U.S. government officials think they are hurting China by banning tech exports. In fact, they are doing the Chinese a big favor.

August 4, 2025

Richard Vigilante

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