Hidden State: Politics in the Age of Total Control

​Jacob Siegel joins Reign to discuss his new book The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control (Henry Holt, 2026), called "the most important political book of the last several years" by the Washington Examiner and "sure to be the most important and explosive book of 2026" by Rod Dreher. In it, Siegel traces how government agencies, media institutions, and tech platforms built an infrastructure to organize political power around "information dominance".

About the author: Jacob Siegel is the special features editor at Tablet Magazine and co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. A U.S. Army veteran who served as an officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, he later returned to the Middle East as a journalist. He co-edited the literary anthology Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Free Press, Politico, American Affairs, The Baffler, and The Daily Beast.

Talk + Q&A. Books available for purchase and signing. Open bar.