The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, for example, could not be more of an establishment figure: He was an early investor in Facebook, is now a mentor of Vice President–Elect J. D. Vance ...

Mr. Thiel was an early, lonely Silicon Valley supporter of Mr. Trump in 2016, and his party symbolized, in vivid terms, the tech industry’s new excitement for Mr. Trump. Dozens of top right-wing ...

Is there anything more influential than the invisible hand of Peter Thiel? Like the Valar in the J.R.R. Tolkien books he loves so much—he’s named six companies with terms drawn from the ...