Peter Thiel’s Annual Dialog Retreat, Where the Elite Meet to Eat, and Decide Our Fate

This year it will be held in Ireland, somewhere near Dublin, where early foxhunting horns are not the only call to the chase. Those properly mounted for Thiel’s running-to-ground of we lesser omnivorous mammals, will don the top-hats and pink coats awarded to Masters of commerce, technology, politics and other less-known forms of social skullduggery.

Hark! I hear Thiel’s horn at this very moment, calling hounds to gather.

A word about Peter Thiel, Master of Foxhounds for this annual chase, in case you are unfamiliar.

Peter is a German-born American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political donor, who became one of the most influential figures in Silicon Valley. Thus, thank god, he can never become President of the United States. But that is a private prayer, by an agnostic (hence the small g) and you need not share it.

Upon studying philosophy at Stanford University (so say my consultants) and earning a law degree there, he co-founded PayPal in 1998, thus pioneering digital payments…