Max chafkin, reporter for bloomberg, wrote the contrarian, a biography of peter teal. He was born in germany and his family were conservative german immigrants living in the us. For his followers, he's this kind of weird combination of like an ine ran, like a sort of right wing libertarian philosopher, and like an inrand cara. So you have this weird combination of very provocative ideas and then this kind of aspirational, almost self help to some of those ideas,. where it's like, and you can too. It's to day explained. I'm no ell king.
From politicians to podcasters, one man’s money unites the New Right. Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin explains how Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is shaping the fledgling conservative movement in his own image.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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