A quick hit: Peter Thiel ended his fourth Antichrist lecture here in Nashville by encouraging Nashvilleans to get over what he calls their “mild inferiority complex,” urging them not to leave finance and politics to others. His “apocalyptic conclusion,” he says, is there are very, very few places willing to host such a talk, and he was heartened to see people turn up. He argues that Nashville is something like a global center for Protestantism—what he calls the center of a religion with no center—and exhorts the people of Nashville to fight. If you give up on the battle of ideas, he says, you’ll lose.