Peter Thiel: Keynote Address (The Conservative and Republican Student Conference, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min
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Episode description
Peter Thiel's keynote address at the Conservative and Republican Student Conference; discussion with Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule.
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Outline:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:24) Opening Remarks
(03:39) "Diversity" as a distraction
(04:43) 3 themes that The Diversity Myth did not address
(07:38) Economic criticism of "diversity"
(15:10) "Diversity" in STEM and academia
(24:25) A religious or Christian's take on our woke religion
(31:34) Concluding remarks
(33:26) Discussion with Professor Vermeule
(37:22) Nature of the late liberal regime
(51:10) Puritanism's similarities to wokeness
(57:29) Is the State an enemy of conservatism?
(01:03:15) Is wokeness a distortion or fulfillment of post WWII liberalism?
(01:07:42) On conservatives in academia
(01:08:34) What policies might fix this problem?
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