I've listened to the full interview now, and yes - well worth it. Very pithy, and distils things our conversations have touched on. Two interesting points to mention, from many others: 1 - The i… (View Post)

He's intelligent, regardless of what we think of him. A summa cum laude from Yale; summa cum laude is usually top 2% or 5%. In 2007, Vance left the military and used the G.I. Bill to study polit… (View Post)

A famous quote attributed to Petronius Arbiter, a Roman writer and advisor to Emperor Nero, about being reorganized is: "We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form u… (View Post)

And interesting 2009 "how I got here" essay by Thiel (quite short): "The Education of a Libertarian" But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on… (View Post)

That reminds me of Roman Catholic Cardinals and conversational Latin, which I think is still an official language at the Vatican. And *that* reminded me of Pope Benedict and his languages. Here he sp… (View Post)