🚨 UPDATED Excited to announce that The Piraeus will be teaming up with Oyarsa to host our 1st ever in-person event Monday, October 19 at noon in Nashville (afternoon of the 4th Thiel lecture)! "Building on the Cultural Frontier" will be a lunch and panel discussion featuring leaders from our rapidly growing grassroots movement—citizen activists, independent scholars, and entrepreneurs working to revitalize Western culture and education outside of mainstream institutions. The panel will introduce you to these leaders and their projects, discuss their visions for the future, and show you how to get involved. Nick Gallo (@nickmgallo) will lead the discussion with the following panelists: FROM NASHVILLE: ➤ ​Davis Hunt (@vrgldh), founder of The Pamphleteer (@realpamphleteer ), "Nashville's Alt-Daily," that aims to combat corporate and progressive media domination, and, through its in-person events, connect Nashville's citizen activists. Davis will discuss his vision for building grassroots coalitions, facilitating local civic engagement, and inspiring citizen activists in other cities. ➤ Warren Steury(@NWSteury), founder of Meriwether Academy (@meriwetheracdmy), a Nashville-based men's group dedicated to reviving the ideal of the American man. Warren will discuss his vision for building men's civic organizations and boys' schools centered around classical and outdoor education. FROM OUT OF STATE: ➤ Michael Millerman (@millerman), founder of The Millerman School, an online school of political philosophy that teaches Strauss, Heidegger, Plato, and others, to discuss his vision of enriching political and philosophical discourse outside academia. ➤ Paul McNeil (@pbdmcniel), founder of The Wagon Box Inn (@thewagonbox) in Story, Wyoming, to discuss his vision of connecting online communities at real-world hubs, like the Wagon Box, which can serve as a model for similar projects across the country. ➤ Tyler Mathews (@tchevezmathews), founder of Oyarsa (@oyarsanetwork), a St. Louis-based men's group to discuss his vision of connecting grassroots cultural groups with local business owners and entrepreneurs, and how St. Louis can serve as a model for other cities. Light lunch will be served before the panel, which will be followed by a social hour to connect with others before the Thiel event. Paid subscribers to The Piraeus and members of Oyarsa get a 20% discount code. Look forward to seeing you all there!

At his fourth and final Nashville Antichrist lecture, Peter Thiel wonders whether the New Rome—per Thiel, the United States—will survive this century as it contends with what he describes as the twin threats of Antichrist and Armageddon. America, he argues, is the last and final form of the Roman Empire. There is no successor, he says. He doubts China has the financial and ideological heft to supersede the United States in that role—“Mandarin’s too hard to learn,” and no one outside China cares about Xi Jinping Thought. In a subsequent discussion with Peter Robinson, he qualifies the claim that there is no successor, saying it’s possible the Roman Empire could be reconstituted in some form but that the path is very hard to see. China, he concedes, may be closer to something like that on the military front; its buildup and technological advances notwithstanding, he argues the country hasn’t faced a meaningful test since its 1979 war with Vietnam. (Vietnam overthrew the China-backed Khmer Rouge.) Thiel comments on the displacement of Great Britain by the United States, arguing that America took steps to smooth that transition. The systems and language were the same, he says, arguing that the United States gave its mother country some residual power even as it boxed it in. According to Thiel, the lack of a rival to the U.S. on par with what the U.S. was to Great Britain means the end of the United States has not been accelerated. The investor worries that if things go south for the United States, any future transition from American hegemony might look a lot rockier

This Saturday (Oct 24th) in Nashville. Join us for a workshop on strategic rhetorical devices and how to spot manipulative wordplay before it gets to you first. Led by the president of the largest investigative agency in TN, we’ll take an in-depth look at how media, politics, and influential outlets use common turns of phrase to influence you from the inside out and practice spotting them in real time. Sat, Oct 24 in Nashville, TN Gentlemen only Dinner, wine, & cigars served. (Link below for tickets)

A wonderful capstone to Thiel’s lectures in Nashville with @realpamphleteer American culture is worth fighting for. It will take hard work, some of our labors may not be rewarded, but in the end it is right and just. God’s will shall prevail. We look forward to seeing you all again soon.

We are gonna win boys! We are going to win! No black pilling.

An honor to be invited on this panel! Keep an eye on @NickMGallo and @ThePiraeus . He is doing fantastic work.

Incredible panel pulled together by @ThePiraeus Discussing the cultural frontier. Especially how Nashville can help shape the cultural future of America. Shoutout to @vrgldh / @realpamphleteer, @NWSteury / @meriwetheracdmy, @millerman / @millermanschool, @thewagonbox, @oyarsanetwork for sharing such incredible insights.

Just got video squared away for tomorrow. Looking forward to this event and showing everyone the great community we've been building in Nashville and beyond. Tomorrow at noon: luma.com/qwyszdp1