Episode · MD MEETS · 2026-09-24

Books mentioned on Peter Thiel: The AI Crisis, Europe’s Decline & the Battle for America

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Peter Thiel on AI, Trump, democracy and the future of the West.

Peter Thiel discussed Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Faust

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · at 14:38

   Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a classic play about a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly experience.

   Discussed

   “In, if you contrast the Faust books of Marlow versus Goethe, in Marlow's Faust, that was the 16th century Faust story,”

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