Question

This person claimed that John Locke replaced human nature with an unknowable “X” in an essay arguing that 9/11 brought about the end of liberalism and ushered in the title “Straussian Moment.” (15[1])ProPublica’s (15[1])investigation “Lord of the Roths” (15[1])details how this person made a (15[1])gargantuan profit out of a $2000 Roth IRA. (15[2])This person is the founder and so-called “don” of an unofficial “mafia” whose members include (15[1])Max (-5[1])Levchin and (-5[1])(*) Reid Hoffman. (10[1])Student recipients of this person’s fellowship, (10[1])like (10[1])Ethereum (10[1])co-founder Vitalik Buterin, leave (10[1])college to pursue other work. (10[1]-5[1])This person is set to bankroll (-5[1])the “Enhanced Games,” (10[2])an Olympics-like event without drug (-5[1])testing. In 2016, (-5[1])this man became the first openly gay speaker at a Republican National Convention. Blake Masters’s Senate campaign (10[1])was primarily financed by, for 10 points, what venture capitalist who cofounded Palantir and PayPal? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[4])

ANSWER: Peter Thiel (“teel”) (The third sentence refers to the PayPal Mafia.)
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Michael BucknallUNC HunnyDuke1380
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