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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Anti-Christ Superstar — What’s the deal with Peter Thiel?
Description: He’s a nightmare made flesh for progressives and liberals: an anti-woke, hyper-libertarian tech billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance, supports Curtis Yarvin’s anti-democracy “Dark Enlightenment” movement, and seems to base his worldview on the worst parts of Lord Of The Rings. But lately Peter Thiel has been getting even weirder, warning of the rise of an actual Anti-Christ who wants to “end science”. What is going on? Thiel-watcher James Ball of The New World magazine joins Andrew Harrison to explain the odd philosophy of this superpowered misfit.
• Now hear Thiel’s biographer Max Chafkin interviewed by Andrew on Apple an...