News Summary

• Gil Durán explores the sources for some of the Valley’s most menacing ideas.
• Thiel, the supervillain in this story, was profoundly shaped by a 1997 book by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.
• “The most important thing to understand about J.D.
• Vance,’ Durán writes of the vice president, “is that he is almost entirely a creation of Peter Thiel.” Durán: Some of the more baffling obsessions of the current administration become more intelligible as manifestations of Silicon Valley ambitions and lobbying.