Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Thiel even funds a science journal called Inference that includes a smattering of fringe right-wing politics.79 Don’t forget the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and LessWrong; he has also funded the commercial activities of neoreactionary techno-monarchist blogger Curtis Yarvin, a proponent of Dark Enlightenment thought.xix 80 Journalists dug up these relationships; Thiel hasn’t taken credit in public for any of these publications, which makes it difficult for me to imagine that there aren’t another few lurking undiscovered. Palo Alto thinks of itself as far from the epicenter of Trumpism, but the town has maintained its role as America’s anticommunist citadel, now with even more money.