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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About the Conservative and Republican Student Conference:
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.

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