Peter Thiel - Keynote Address | The Conservative and Republican Student Conference

Peter Thiel delivers his keynote address at the inaugural Conservative and Republican Student Conference, hosted jointly with the Harvard Salient. The conference took place on Saturday, February 10th at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge, M.A, just steps away from Harvard Square.

Mr. Thiel is joined by Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule for a discussion after the address.

Video and Audio Production by Halberstadt Productions

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Today’s academic consensus leaves little room for conservative ideas. Having left the right behind, academia finds itself all too often consumed by intellectual fads and untethered from the needs of our public discourse. The Conservative and Republican Student Conference was created to address this problem. The inaugural conference aims to provide Harvard students with a venue where they can hear from conservative leaders, policymakers and academics. It also serves as a gathering space for right-leaning students at one of the most liberal university campuses in the country. We hope that your discussions continue after our program concludes and that this conference sparks a revival of conservative thought at Harvard and throughout higher education.

Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
Opening Remarks 00:24
“Diversity” as a distraction 03:39
3 themes that The Diversity Myth did not address 04:43
Economic criticism of “diversity” 07:38
“Diversity” in STEM and academia 15:10
A religious or Christian’s take on our woke religion 24:25
Concluding remarks 31:34
Discussion with Professor Vermeule 33:26
Nature of the late liberal regime 37:22
Puritanism’s similarities to wokeness 51:10
Is the State an enemy of conservatism? 57:29
Is wokeness a distortion or fulfillment of post WWII liberalism? 1:03:15
On conservatives in academia 1:07:42
What policies might fix this problem? 1:08:34

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Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and has funded companies like LinkedIn and Yelp. Peter also started the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking.

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Adrian Vermuele (Harvard College B.A. 1990; Harvard Law School J.D. 1993) is the Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. The author or co-author of eleven books, most recently Common Good Constitutionalism (Polity Books), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. He is co-editor of The New Digest, a forum for classical legal theory.

[T--kbus]

The energy with which he talks is very very top notch, again salute and respect to sir peter theil | LONG LIVE ISRAEL | LONG LIVE AMERICA

[byzantinegold]

Always brilliant from Peter Thiel. We need more books from him.

[thinkingcitizen]

engineer with a master's degree here. I come from the old Midwestern Anglo-Saxon ancestry. There was plenty of diversity in my scientific and engineering courses throughout college and grad school. There were plenty Americans of Armenian, Russian/Slavic, Indian/South Asian, East Asian, Jewish, Lebanese, Italian, Irish, Nordic ancestry. It was amazing. Just because there weren't any Blacks or Hispanics doesn't mean it wasn't racially diverse-- DEI folks never understand that.

[martincull]

Peter, you have found your voice in this presentation!

[iqfoot]

37:22 this is the best section of the video

[WillyLeclaire]

Wow talking about Aimee Cesaire, a carribean intellectual from my Ireland. thanks from Guadeloupe.

[letdaseinlive]

Vermeule is so fucking arch. It's like that scene in "Blue Velvet" where Dennis Hopper says how suave the Dean Stockwell character is as they abuse the future Kwisatz Haderach. Some people look about and exchange sly glances as if to say, we live! How can there be aspirin for the superman? For his visions and strivings as of a star which is dead for a million years and still in power.

[hugegnarlyeyeball]

People actually do their work at the post office and the DMV.

[letdaseinlive]

Sexy Aimé Césaire refrence! 😮 I'm going to tell Ms Kristen Stewart about this.

[unitedstatesofpostamerica]

Omg that interviewer is talking too much

[LastDaysofRomeRIP]

Does anyone know where to read more on the ideas mentioned surrounding the 'Catacon?'

[titocosta]

So many ideas. Great exchange at the end of the talk as well.

[davidkey]

I wasn't aware they were still admitted to Harvard

[BrawsonProductions]

the clanging sound of knives and forks on plates is obnoxious and off putting - aside from that great speech

[CharlesHarpolekvud]

I tried to make warning comment about Chinese train to Tibet and my words were simply erased. That train is an abomination to the world.

[Danji_Coppersmoke]

In physics field, string theory is a quasi-fringe science. Steven Weinber once said "There are physicist and then there are string theorists". He basically didn't count the string theory as science due to lack of experimentally verifiable prediction.
Edit added : So even if you can prove that string theorist are frauds, you are not tackling science frauds. You are just agreeing with most physicists.

[Dropdabrickonyotoes]

I bet he does these talks to find new blood boys 😂😂😂

[Roberta-myqr]

Instead of advancing breakthroughs in technology, I think studying Economics through a more geo-political lens would be helpful, and finding some solutions will mitigate the social problems that prevent your goals from being realized.

[whatsdoin]

The cover story of DEI woke is the Christian motto the meek shall inherit the earth. The real story is good old envy (Cain slew Abel) People mask and self deny their own true self because its too painful to see your own truth.

[faisalk.]

The host's voice is very annoying.