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Peter Thiel—the Palantir billionaire who created JD Vance from a bag of Cheetos and a bucket of eyeliner—is giving his Antichrist lectures in #Nashville. I just bought a ticket… What would Dolly do?

Chapter 7 of “The Nerd Reich” is titled “Antichrist: Silicon Valley’s New Religion.” It exposes the strange melding of Evangelical and tech apocalypse fantasies with MAGA fascism. And it tells you what Thiel’s Antichrist fixation is really about.

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I’m a reader and I just could not figure out what was going on! This book and in particular this chapter gave me a new, more cohesive understanding of the fight over democracy. I’m grateful for it!