Thiel Tells Black-Tie NYC Audience Diversity Is a Distraction

Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and one-time adviser to President Donald Trump, is renewing his argument that there are more serious issues facing society than debates over diversity and identity politics.

At a New Criterion event in New York on Thursday, the polarizing Republican megadonor, who has backed hard-right candidates that have leaned into the culture wars, gave an address titled “The Diversity Myth,” a version of which is set to appear in the June issue of the conservative arts and ideas magazine.

Peter Thiel accepts an award, plus books, from New Criterion Editor and Publisher Roger Kimball.

Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg

Before an audience of about 250 people that included Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss ...