A Startup Linked to Peter Thiel Wants to Build the “Next Great City” in Greenland
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Shadowy Tech Goons Want to Build a New City in California. What Could Go Wrong?
A bunch of Silicon Valley tycoons think they’re going to build a utopia in northern California. We’ve heard this one before.
Shadowy Tech Goons Want to Build a New City in California. What Could Go Wrong?
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The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch
The Dungeon Master
Peter Thiel is full of contradictions—a libertarian who founded a company that aids government surveillance, a critic of tech who supports Facebook’s mission for world domination, and a defender of free speech who helped to kill a media outlet.
The Dungeon Master
INSIDE THE NEW RIGHT, WHERE PETER THIEL IS PLACING HIS BIGGEST BETS
They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.
INSIDE THE NEW RIGHT, WHERE PETER THIEL IS PLACING HIS BIGGEST BETS
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Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries (For more, see the reading list at the end of the article)
Peter Thiel Embodies Silicon Valley’s Conservative Past and Dystopian Future
Peter Thiel Embodies Silicon Valley’s Conservative Past and Dystopian Future
In August 2020, Thiel told Die Weltwoche that COVID-19 had created an opening. “Changes that should have taken place long ago did not come because there was resistance. Now the future is set free.” But the future desired by Thiel is one that involves less democracy, more restrictive immigration measures, and a tech industry even more aligned with the interests of the US government. Tech’s libertarian age is waning, but its future could be even worse.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 