'Don't Immanentize The Katechon!'

And: Yankee Athonite Returns; Martin Shaw Jawbones; USAID & BBC; JK Rowling

That’s the slogan on a very cool t-shirt that Peter Thiel gave me last night. It’s a play on the famous Eric Voegelin anti-utopian command: “Don’t immanentize the eschaton” — meaning, don’t try to create heaven on earth.

I’m in Oxford to hear Peter deliver his final two lectures on the topic of the Antichrist. All of us invited to the talk agreed not to…