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Peter Thiel, Irresistible Pariah

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Peter Thiel, Irresistible Pariah

The publishing industry fuels its non-fiction sales with Girardian scapegoats by authors who play the game. Does every good story need a bad guy?

Luke Burgis
Nov 11, 2021
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A version of this essay was originally published in Unherd in September.

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