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Advice for smart, right-leaning Zoomers

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The following is a section of my brief viatext interview with The Lion and the fox. Read the whole thing there. Right Rationalism is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. When Peter Thiel was at Stanford, everyone knows that he started the Stanford Review. But people forget that he got money for this from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute—an org started by one William Frank Buckley. This still exists, and they still give those right-wing student newspapers grants. To strive in this greater right-wing internet nexus (and a lot of the rest of the world) is to learn to live in spiraling networks of mentors and mentees, minnows organizing themselves around whales like Thiel, the Red Scare girls, and Cowen. I’ve spent some time here, and I have lived well enough. Of course, I’ve missed a lot of opportunities, but—in the spirit of Patrick Collison and Nabeel Qureshi—here are some of the things I’ve found hel

The following is a section of my brief viatext interview with The Lion and the fox. Read the whole thing there. When Peter Thiel was at Stanford, everyone knows that he started the Stanford Review. But people forget that he got money for this from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute—an org started by one William Frank Buckley. This still exists, and they still give those right-wing student newspapers grants. To strive in this greater right-wing internet nexus (and a lot of the rest of the world) is to learn to live in spiraling networks of mentors and mentees, minnows organizing…

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