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### Stanford and the Thiel Network
Thiel took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Stanford in 1989 and a JD from Stanford Law School in 1992, and as a sophomore in 1987 founded *[[The Stanford Review|The Stanford Review]],* the conservative-libertarian student newspaper that a *Stanford Politics* investigation later described as "one of the surest paths to success in Silicon Valley." The investigation documented roughly three hundred employment relationships between Review alumni and about sixty institutions founded by Thiel or [[Joe Lonsdale|Joe Lonsdale]]. [[David Sacks]] was a later editor-in-chief of the Review and a Stanford undergraduate in the class of 1994, [[Keith Rabois|Keith Rabois]] was its opinion editor in the class of 1991, and Lonsdale and Palantir cofounder [[Stephen Cohen|Stephen Cohen]] were Stanford undergraduates and Review affiliates.[^8][^9]
Thiel took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Stanford in 1989 and a JD from Stanford Law School in 1992, and as a sophomore in 1987 founded *[[The Stanford Review|The Stanford Review]],* the conservative-libertarian student newspaper that a *Stanford Politics* investigation later described as "one of the surest paths to success in [[Silicon Valley]]." The investigation documented roughly three hundred employment relationships between Review alumni and about sixty institutions founded by Thiel or [[Joe Lonsdale|Joe Lonsdale]]. [[David Sacks]] was a later editor-in-chief of the Review and a Stanford undergraduate in the class of 1994, [[Keith Rabois|Keith Rabois]] was its opinion editor in the class of 1991, and Lonsdale and Palantir cofounder [[Stephen Cohen|Stephen Cohen]] were Stanford undergraduates and Review affiliates.[^8][^9]
[[Rene Girard|René Girard]], the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, taught at Stanford, and Thiel took his courses as an undergraduate in the late 1980s; Girard's mimetic theory became foundational to Thiel's worldview, and Thiel spoke at Girard's memorial after his death in November 2015. [[Alex Karp|Alex Karp]], Thiel's [[Palantir Technologies|Palantir]] cofounder, took his JD at Stanford Law in the same 1992 class as Thiel, where the two met, though Karp's undergraduate degree is from Haverford College and his doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt. [[Reid Hoffman|Reid Hoffman]] met Thiel as a Stanford undergraduate, where he studied symbolic systems before taking a philosophy degree at Oxford. The [[Hoover Institution|Hoover Institution]] fellow and former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson, who hosts the program *Uncommon Knowledge,* has interviewed Thiel within the same conservative-Stanford orbit.[^10][^11][^12]