On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation.

Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel, René Girard, victimhood and the antichrist.

• Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"? Is it different from the left's?

• Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?

• What does René Girard argue about mimesis and scapegoating? Why have his theories become popular?

• Is right-populism still politicising? How does it relate to libertarian anti-politics and hard-right militarisation?

• How has Silicon Valley libertarianism adapted to the new state-capitalist disposition?

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Links:

• René Girard and the Rise of Victim Power, Geoff Shullenberger, Compact

• The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession, Laura Bullard, Wired

• The Faith of Nick Land, Geoff Shullenberger, Compact