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Weekend Listening: Peter Thiel Says We Have Bigger Problems Than Wokeness
Weekend Listening: Peter Thiel Says We Have Bigger Problems Than Wokeness
Billionaire investor and PayPal founder Peter Thiel at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami. (Marco Bello via Getty Images)
The ‘pariah of Silicon Valley’ on China, TikTok, AI, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Florida and California, God, new moonshots, and how to make America great again.
By Bari Weiss
05.12.23 — U.S. Politics
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Weekend Listening: Peter Thiel Says We Have Bigger Problems Than Wokeness

A few weeks ago my producer, Candace, and I went to Miami to talk to the tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel at his home. Peter Thiel is one of the most formative men in modern Silicon Valley. He’s also one of the most despised people among the New York media set, having successfully conspired to put the publication Gawker out of business. 

So dep…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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