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A few weeks ago, there was a salacious cover story published in Stanford Politics titled How Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review Built a Silicon Valley Empire. The piece began carefully, focusing on Thiel’s ongoing involvement with the newspaper with necessary backstory. Gradually, though, it zeroed in on the network of people connected to the Stanford Review. I wondered why this merited a cover story, but then recalled that Peter Thiel (and, by association, the newspaper he started) had conserv...
who better than two of the PayPal godfathers to provide a solid argument against something a deeply believe in: the value of diversity. It’s truly mind boggling just how related Stanford’s experience with the multi-cultural wars in the 80s relates to the identity-politics campaigns on college campuses today. Some of the material really did not age well, but it’s fairly easy to dismiss in order to appreciate the book’s thesis at its strongest. Sacks and Thiel are so thorough in their takedown of
A rather fascinating and well written if limiting book about Stanford's embrace of Multiculturalism, which along with certain scandals, hobbled the university. Where the book is limited is its bias; the brief section on Bill Clinton is laughably obtuse. So as a history book it is useful, but one where not all can be readily accepted. Indeed, I kept wondering how the Hoover Institution weathered the storm that unfolds in the pages, whether it be the "cancelling" of Keith Rabois or the hypocrisy a...
One-sided but prescientI don’t agree with everything the authors put forward but their descriptions of Stanford campus life in the nineties seem to have portended much of what is happening at elite academic institutions across the country today.
Not as bad as expectedThis book came up sometime last year in the heat of the 2016 campaign, when Peter Thiel (cofounder of PayPal, and co-author with David Sacks) came out in support of Trump. The way you'd hear it described, it was racist and everything wrong with white males in America. Not quite. While I don't agree with a lot of the conclusions Thiel and Sacks draw from the "multicultural experiment" at Stanford, they quite accurately pointed out some hypocrisy in it. While "Hey ho! Western...
Good anecdotes, but the overall morale of the story is missing / becomes pretty clear after the first chapter.
“The Diversity Myth” is a twenty-year-old book that nobody would remember, despite its many virtues, were it not for that its authors (and many of the young figures in its pages) have since then become highly-visible billionaires, and, in the case of Peter Thiel, prominent public intellectuals. None of them knew that then, though (presumably!), which makes the book even more interesting.And everything old is new again. This book has, since I started writing this review, taken on new relevancy, w...
Despite having a four-year liberals arts degree from a reputable university, I have learned little about the West’s greatest legacies. Thiel and Sachs forecasted this “empty curriculum” students experience today. Instead of learning from Thoreau, Plato, and Plutarch, students taste four years of grade-inflated nothingness.
Just about as false as one can get, this book actually has the audacity to celebrate Columbus' travels to the New World as a "multicultural" journey. These two dimwit authors, who have a politically charged agenda that could not be any more overt and misinformed, try and convince the reader that Columbus celebrated the individuality of the native Taino, who they call "noble savages," without the quotes. But Columbus is soured when he comes across their mortal enemy (punchline: they're NOT referr...
I enjoyed this immensely. One gets to see a younger Peter Thiel, who was a lot more vocal, and unapologetically exhaustive about issues that were more or less happening right next to him in the very intellectual environment he matured from. A tour-de-force, and touted to be prescient about how dogma and egoism drove agendas that are still present in today's American colleges & universities. I was kind of a liberal arts outcast, so I shared many sentiments from this cultural tour-de-force. A litt...
This book was authored by David Sacks and Peter Thiel, who later became well known (and wealthy) as one of the founders of Paypal. It ably chronicles the "politically correct" nonsense the authors witnessed as students at Stanford University in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The book addresses an important subject in the wave of left-wing nonsense that has engulfed American universities over the past few decades, and everything it says is true and well documented. As such, it makes an important...
Multiculturalism starting at Stanford campus is tribalism covered in euphemism, and also rejection of hard work. Hard stuff nobody wants to discuss about.
