Peter Thiel - Keynote Address | The Conservative and Republican Student Conference

Peter Thiel delivers his keynote address at the inaugural Conservative and Republican Student Conference, hosted jointly with the Harvard Salient. The conference took place on Saturday, February 10th at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge, M.A, just steps away from Harvard Square.
Mr. Thiel is joined by Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule for a discussion after the address.
Video and Audio Production by Halberstadt Productions
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Today’s academic consensus leaves little room for conservative ideas. Having left the right behind, academia finds itself all too often consumed by intellectual fads and untethered from the needs of our public discourse. The Conservative and Republican Student Conference was created to address this problem. The inaugural conference aims to provide Harvard students with a venue where they can hear from conservative leaders, policymakers and academics. It also serves as a gathering space for right-leaning students at one of the most liberal university campuses in the country. We hope that your discussions continue after our program concludes and that this conference sparks a revival of conservative thought at Harvard and throughout higher education.
Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
Opening Remarks 00:24
“Diversity” as a distraction 03:39
3 themes that The Diversity Myth did not address 04:43
Economic criticism of “diversity” 07:38
“Diversity” in STEM and academia 15:10
A religious or Christian’s take on our woke religion 24:25
Concluding remarks 31:34
Discussion with Professor Vermeule 33:26
Nature of the late liberal regime 37:22
Puritanism’s similarities to wokeness 51:10
Is the State an enemy of conservatism? 57:29
Is wokeness a distortion or fulfillment of post WWII liberalism? 1:03:15
On conservatives in academia 1:07:42
What policies might fix this problem? 1:08:34
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Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and has funded companies like LinkedIn and Yelp. Peter also started the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking.
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Zero to One on Amazon
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Adrian Vermuele (Harvard College B.A. 1990; Harvard Law School J.D. 1993) is the Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. The author or co-author of eleven books, most recently Common Good Constitutionalism (Polity Books), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. He is co-editor of The New Digest, a forum for classical legal theory.
Common Good Constitutionalism on Amazon www.amazon.com/Common-Good-Co...

[@chesstictacs3107]

Peter looks great!

[@randomswedishdude]

He has great blood boys

[@dothex4919]

Peter Thiel might just save America 🎉

[@user-wz6cf3fo1z]

Thank you Peter Thiel for everything you share! What a great guy!!!!!!

[@_1jay]

Welcome to Thiels light army

[@WillyLeclaire]

Wow talking about Aimee Cesaire, a carribean intellectual from my Ireland. thanks from Guadeloupe.

[@byzantinegold]

Always brilliant from Peter Thiel. We need more books from him.

[@thinkingcitizen]

engineer with a master's degree here. I come from the old Midwestern Anglo-Saxon ancestry. There was plenty of diversity in my scientific and engineering courses throughout college and grad school. There were plenty Americans of Armenian, Russian/Slavic, Indian/South Asian, East Asian, Jewish, Lebanese, Italian, Irish, Nordic ancestry. It was amazing. Just because there weren't any Blacks or Hispanics doesn't mean it wasn't racially diverse-- DEI folks never understand that.

[@wave641]

it has become clear that they don't and never wanted diversity by your definition it's all about rebalancing power in a zero-sum manner, "different viewpoints" is just window dressing

[@yamoto1833]

DEI is a Marxist argument to redistribute power and oppression in society from brown and black to white oppression and humiliation it has notthing to do with what you are talking about

[@yamoto1833]

DEI is a Marxist argument for Power redistribution in society and empowering darker skin complex in power dynamic structures against the “oppressor” and violence is tollerate to get the objective .

[@yamoto1833]

DEI is a Marxist argument to power REdistribution in society to empower darker skin complex people to fight the “oppressor” it has nothing to do with what are you talking about

[@yamoto1833]

a Marxist argument to power REdistribution in society to empower darker skin complex people to fight the “oppressor” it has nothing to do with what are you talking about

[@500iq6foot8]

37:22 this is the best section of the video

[@letdaseinlive]

Vermeule is so fucking arch. It's like that scene in "Blue Velvet" where Dennis Hopper says how suave the Dean Stockwell character is as they abuse the future Kwisatz Haderach. Some people look about and exchange sly glances as if to say, we live! How can there be aspirin for the superman? For his visions and strivings as of a star which is dead for a million years and still in power.

[@Jake-Day]

Clink clink clink clink.

[@shanemccann4942]

Does anyone know where to read more on the ideas mentioned surrounding the 'Catacon?'

[@bobby6462]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton -- ya i was confused too

[@shanemccann4942]

@@bobby6462 thanks for the link, really appreciate it!

[@letdaseinlive]

Sexy Aimé Césaire refrence! 😮 I'm going to tell Ms Kristen Stewart about this.

[@user-wz6cf3fo1z]

There should not even be any interest rate anywhere. Financial entities shoul not be for profit for God's sake!!!

[@soulfuzz368]

Oy vey!

[@BreezeTalk]

Good, thank you.

[@MickLeonardJD]

Brilliant.

[@davidkey4272]

I wasn't aware they were still admitted to Harvard

[@unitedstatesofpostamerica7559]

Omg that interviewer is talking too much

[@BrawsonProductions]

the clanging sound of knives and forks on plates is obnoxious and off putting - aside from that great speech

[@Roberta-my7qr]

Instead of advancing breakthroughs in technology, I think studying Economics through a more geo-political lens would be helpful, and finding some solutions will mitigate the social problems that prevent your goals from being realized.

[@titocosta]

So many ideas. Great exchange at the end of the talk as well.

[@brendawilliams8062]

It puts your mind somewhat on governance. Is government like a shadow. Always there if you choose to look for it, but is excessive as a bedfellow

[@Dropdabrickonyotoes]

I bet he does these talks to find new blood boys 😂😂😂

[@christianglashoff263]

God is great 🙏

[@Danji_Coppersmoke]

In physics field, string theory is a quasi-fringe science. Steven Weinber once said "There are physicist and then there are string theorists". He basically didn't count the string theory as science due to lack of experimentally verifiable prediction. Edit added : So even if you can prove that string theorist are frauds, you are not tackling science frauds. You are just agreeing with most physicists.

[@Nik-ik8mv]

I like Thiel. But we need to not have fireside chats but sunside chats with billionaires.

[@CrimsonLegacy]

What do you mean?

[@FikrNaqdi]

Thiel should read Genesis 19:24-26. May Christ guide him to the light.

[@02tom46]

Yarvin & BAP mentioned in the same sentence, based.

[@anthonycarlino4604]

this dude just be giving the same ass speech every time

[@caladr9367]

Not even close

[@double051]

The professor is talking too much, let Peter do the talking

[@whatsdoin2392]

The cover story of DEI woke is the Christian motto the meek shall inherit the earth. The real story is good old envy (Cain slew Abel) People mask and self deny their own true self because its too painful to see your own truth.

[@brendawilliams8062]

If the imagination does not have beauty. And purpose And a clean a heart as possible Well, start a human string theory

[@whatsdoin2392]

​@@brendawilliams8062 Imagination must be tempered with reason. Beauty is short lived and purposes can be evil. Our "hearts" are filled with both love AND hate. Work towards clarity of our human condition.

[@brendawilliams8062]

@@whatsdoin2392 I do math. Not politics

[@ardeshirjahanian2697]

When Peter speaks, listen

[@epb22]

21:25 There’s lots to dislike about string theory, particularly its problems with falsifiability. But science (or even just theoretical physics) doesn’t all come crashing down with it, any more than big business all comes crashing down with the exposure of Enron. Is this really Peter’s fantasy about string theory, or is he just parroting Eric Weinstein’s very personal axe-grinding?

[@byzantinegold]

He’s being hyperbolic to illustrate a point, don’t get hung up on the literalist interpretation

[@anthonyv.8668]

Theil 2024

[@faisalk.7520]

The host's voice is very annoying.

[@xushenxin]

Why does young student doing the party politics? It is very disgusting. They should never do this.

[@Little-bird-told-me]

Peter is kind of become quaint. He says the same thing over and over again. We get you dude now find some new ideas

[@sven6418]

First time was entertaining but listening to this for third time gets kind of boring. Is he recycling the same speech with different audiences or this is the "Stanford culture"?

[@bobsmith4978]

I think different places ask him for the speech. His speeches are capturing the evolution in his thought and he's putting it out there in as many places as possible