In my second book, I wrote about the conviction among certain sections of the Silicon Valley elite that a civilisational collapse was imminent; I travelled to New Zealand to visit a former sheep ...

Yet another person with ties to a network of powerful techno-billionaires is set to join the Trump administration.

The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, for example ... and pseudo-spirituality as the New Obscurantism. What can we learn from this kind of credulity? First, that maintaining an appropriate level ...