The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
A WIRED longread by Laura Bullard traces Peter Thiel's two-year Armageddon speaking tour—his warnings about an Antichrist who unites the world through fear of technology—to the Austrian theologian Wolfgang Palaver, whose 1990s critiques of Carl Schmitt's apocalyptic politics have quietly shaped Thiel's language and strategic interventions, from JD Vance's rise to National Conservatism. Palaver, whom Thiel befriended in 1996, fears Thiel has arrived at a catastrophic reading of Schmitt, yet hopes to influence him religiously.
