Peter Thiel has continued to meet with the publication throughout its 30-year history, and, despite him being quite private, he tells them a great deal about his views and plans.pic.twitter.com/Tc1ytjAGeK
আপনি আপনার টুইটগুলিতে ওয়েব থেকে এবং তৃতীয়-পক্ষ অ্যাপ্লিকেশনগুলির মাধ্যমে অবস্থান তথ্য যেমন শহর বা সুনির্দিষ্ট অবস্থান যোগ করতে পারবেন। আপনার কাছে আপনার টুইটের অবস্থান ইতিহাস মোছার বিকল্প থাকবে। আরও জানুন
Peter Thiel has continued to meet with the publication throughout its 30-year history, and, despite him being quite private, he tells them a great deal about his views and plans.pic.twitter.com/Tc1ytjAGeK
One example: Thiel has told undergraduate members of the Review that he wants to cut immigration to the US by “80%.” A former Review editor described his views to me as “foundationalist.”pic.twitter.com/uaxkvq0bK5
For thirty years, the Review has served as Stanford’s independent and contrarian publication, and for that entire time Thiel has recruited directly out of it to his companies and venture firms.
It was exhausting but thrilling to work on this, and I hope you all enjoy it.
Another excerpt: Review staffers told me stories about how Thiel doesn’t back down. One staffer told me that a Thiel public apology was, in Thiel’s words, “just for the media”pic.twitter.com/MdEzM2edWe
One of the things Review members told me that I thought was most interesting was about how Thiel, the cofounder of data analysis firm Palantir, so exuberantly claimed that he could know better than “social scientific knowledge” in front of a big audience.pic.twitter.com/Cz4SU25LKm
We of course know in hindsight that Thiel, in fact, did have a better sense of the Trump/Clinton election result than many polls, so credit to Thiel. But I can’t get it out of my head that he would make such a claim given his role at Palantir.
Modest update to story; a friend helped me find that the Review has filed a 990-N e-Postcard, meaning that they got < 50k in donations per year, since 2010. Also, Alec Rawls has been the “principal officer” since 2013.pic.twitter.com/KElE2zqoDm
Here is another recent article that analyzes Thiel’s links to the philosophies of Strauss and Girard:https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/peter-thiels-apocalypse …
And an article in the New Yorker today looks at a 1989 Stanford incident; Thiel and the Review are mentioned:https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/origin-silicon-valley-dysfunctional-attitude-toward-hate-speech …
I began doing the research that lead to the article on Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review after I read a Gawker article that referenced that the Review's online archives were incomplete. That article is here: http://gawker.com/the-free-speech-peter-thiel-will-defend-faggot-faggo-1779486823 …https://twitter.com/dancow/status/935655880564940800 …
Thanks to all for the kind words on the article; this started off as just a side project by a college student, and I'm floored by the reaction to it. While you're all reading this: subscribe to journalism, including your local papers!
I'm technically not a student anymore, but student journalism can do big things as well! The @StanfordReview, @StanfordDaily, and of course @stnfrdpolitics have all broken stories, and will continue to do so.
I'm graduated now and will not be a regular contributor to @stnfrdpolitics anymore, but I know for a fact that there are big articles coming up on matters relating to Stanford and beyond. I've been very glad to be a part of it.
Update to this story: in the months since this article came out, in addition to the discovery of two additional Thiel articles that are now noted, I have continued to find more and more Review employment links. I have now found almost 300 in total.https://stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/peter-thiel-cover-story/ …
Yes! There are a lot of significant networks out there, and a lot of them are worth reporting on. I initially started looking at The Review specifically because, since it originates from my campus, I had some level of familiarity going in.https://twitter.com/jonlautaha/status/972139789154693121 …
I think that the Review network is notable because: 1. Its wealth and overall reach. 2. Its an example of what happens on a campus mattering a lot to the wider world. 3. It’s a link between an ideological student newspaper and Silicon Valley, which isn’t immediately intuitive.
Vital look at how Peter Thiel uses Stanford Review to spread his noxious ideas thru Silicon Valley. Loved comment of student invited to dine w him: “He obviously had zero interest in getting to know us as individuals. He was there to figure out what was going on the campus.” 1/3
Thiel is somehow central to my book about computer geniuses who believe they should run the world, even tho he was no computer genius. (He may believe that chess genius=computer genius.) He just so clearly illustrates the danger in giving Silicon Valley billionaires power. 2/3
I tried to sum up Thiel’s mix of harsh Hobbesian view of society + his faith that blood transfusions, etc., can ward off aging: He dreams of a life nasty, brutish and long. 3/3
High creep factor with him.
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।