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Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy

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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. It wasn’t clear at first why Peter Thiel agreed to talk to me. He is, famously, no friend of the media. But Thiel—co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, avatar of techno-libertarianism, bogeyman of the left—consented to a series of long interviews at his home and office in Los Angeles. He was more open than I expected him to be, and…

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Thiel, Silicon Valley and the Rise of Tech Neo-Reaction

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<p>Here are a few links to a topic I continue to think more and more about. On the surface it&#8217;s Peter Thiel, about whom more in a moment. But beyond Thiel, there&#8217;s a broader reality. In the first years of the century we learned to see Tech as a rising business and political powerhouse that was broadly liberal, at least by the standards of Big Business. &#8216;Liberal&#8217; was probably never quite right &#8211; but at least broadly cosmopolitan in its social values and culture. It was young, comparatively diverse, based…

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