"For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit, spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers. He has chatted onstage with the economist podcaster Tyler Cowen about the katechon (the scriptural term for "that which withholds" the end times); traded some very awkward on-camera silences with the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat;"
"The venue was a yearly conference of scholars devoted to Thiel's chief intellectual influence, the late French-American theorist René Girard. (Thiel identifies as a "hardcore Girardian.") On the evening of the unpublicized lecture, dozens of Girardian philosophers and theologians from around the world filed into a modest lecture hall at the Catholic University of Paris. And from the dais, Thiel delivered a nearly hourlong account of his thoughts on Armageddon-and all the things he believed were "not enough" to prevent it."
Peter Thiel has spent two years promoting biblically inflected doomsday ideas across public forums and private lectures. He invokes the katechon and the Antichrist while appearing with figures like Tyler Cowen and Ross Douthat, often producing awkward exchanges. Thiel identifies as a hardcore Girardian and centers René Girard's theories in his worldview. A major, unpublicized Paris lecture at a Girardian conference drew philosophers and theologians and featured an hourlong account of Armageddon and the measures Thiel judged insufficient to prevent it. Thiel continues to deliver off-the-record, multi-part talks about apocalypse in San Francisco.
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