Philip Mousavizadeh

Hi, I'm Philip.

My name is Philip Mousavizadeh. I’m a foreign policy and U.S. national security researcher, currently at the Council on Foreign Relations. I studied history at Yale College and political theory at the University of Cambridge.

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Essays

2026 October 2026 The Privatization of American Foreign Policy

By leaving AI to the labs, the White House has handed national security decisions to companies that answer to the market, not the public.

September 2026 Does Anyone Have a Plan?

The fight over pacing the frontier of AI has forced the key stakeholders to say something, and it turns out that they have nothing to say.

May 2026 True and False Utopias

Curtis Yarvin’s pull comes from the utopian, Enlightenment ambition at the core of his politics, and liberals have abandoned it at their peril.