ClaimsPeter Thiel

“America had proved so successful in shaping the modern world that most Americans could no longer recognize the originality and strangeness of its founding conception.”

Peter Thiel 2007 The Straussian Moment (gwern.net (PDF))

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America had proved so successful in shaping the modern world that most Americans could no longer recognize the originality and strangeness…

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Peter Thiel, “America had proved so successful in shaping the modern world that most Americans could no longer recognize the originality and strangeness…” (said 2007). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_03d1ceb6bfef, method 0.1.0+3e03e2df, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_03d1ceb6bfef

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