In 2025, Peter Thiel, chairman of data-intelligence company Palantir, was asked what should have been a simple question: if he preferred the human race to endure. Yet one of the most powerful people in politics and tech found it difficult to answer. “Well, uh... I don’t know, I would, um, I would... There are so many questions implicit in this.”

Thiel’s ambivalence, argues End Times Fascism, is not unique. The book is populated with such characters. The extreme right’s success has been in building the most unlikely of coalitions: Silicon Valley tech bros and evangelical pastors, ...

 

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