Ann sits down with Peter Thiel, Chairman of Palantir, the co-founder of PayPal and the first major outside investor in Facebook.

In May of 2016, Theil admitted to the New York Times that he financed Terry Bollea’s (aka, Hulk Hogan) lawsuit against Gawker Media. Here, in part one of Ann’s two-part interview, Thiel goes into great detail on the background story of bringing down one of the internet’s biggest sleaze merchants.

Nadine Strossen, legal scholar and civil liberties activist who served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991 to 2008) returns to the podcast to talk free speech and the rise of anti-Semitism on University campuses.

(Note: This episode was taped prior to Claudine Gay’s resignation at Harvard)

This week Ann interviews New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters on his new book, Insurgency: How the Republicans Lost their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted.

Specifically, we zero in on the Fox News Channel – Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit and the discovery process that showed that what FNC stars were saying on-air hardly matched what they were saying to each other in private.

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Ryan Girdusky returns to the pod to talk about the third GOP debate before Tim Scott decided to bail.
Does Nikki Hayley have a foreign policy or has she just morphed into Carly Fiorina?

Show notes:

• The Tablet editorial: Stop Being Shocked—Once and for All

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