The Straussian Moment

TL;DR — Peter Thiel’s essay on politics after 9/11, reading Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt and René Girard on violence and the limits of liberal democracy.

How much weight it carries: An essay by an investor-philosopher, published in an academic volume; a primary source on Thiel’s thought.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

30 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.