My friend John Ganz and I reformed our intermittent podcast this week to talk about New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s interview with PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Among the topics covered:

* Why Thiel is obsessed with Greta Thunberg, who he seems to think is the Antichrist;

* What “steelmanning” is, and why it’s damaged Thiel’s ability to answer questions from even friendly interviews;

* The Zohran Mamdani campaign as anti-Thiel politics.

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