Amdir, Estel, Peter Thiel

In dark times such as these, those of us who wish to see a better, more just world speak a lot of hope. The word in English, however, is badly overloaded: we mean a lot of different things when we say "hope". We can hope that it's sunny outside, hope that our business venture succeeds, hope that we recover from a serious illness or home that the world that we live in is fundamentally good or for…