Overview

• Reason says it obtained over seven hours of audio from the four-part series, adding that Thiel also named Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom in the group he labeled “legionnaires.”
• The Guardian and The Washington Post previously reviewed video and recordings of the off-the-record lectures, and Esquire characterized the events as paid sessions.
• Thiel describes himself as a “small‑o orthodox Christian” and a “humble classical liberal,” arguing that in the 21st century the Antichrist is a Luddite who seeks to halt science.
• He suggests America—possibly San Francisco—functions as the katechon restraining the Antichrist yet could also be ground zero for a future one‑world order.
• He points to tax treaties, financial surveillance, sanctions architecture, the Patriot Act, and SWIFT as features of an Antichrist‑like system, and he criticizes integralist ideas while voicing concern that Vice President J.D. Vance is “too close to the Pope.”