For anybody raised on the Oxbridge diet, listening to Mr Thiel speak is a little like falling into the Atlantic. The shock of the cold might just put one off altogether. But, after not moving for the first 30 seconds, some of the old hand movements begin to return.
Those old movements are balance-of-power politics, the arms race of technological advancement, Straussianism and our unfree speech, the intramural war on the Right between the traditionalists and the futurists, and the Hegelian’s omnivorous hunger for seeing nothing as insignificant to an epoch’s spirit.
