Conspiracy

Ryan Holiday's narrative of Peter Thiel's secret multi-year campaign to destroy Gawker Media by funding Hulk Hogan's privacy lawsuit — a study in conspiratorial patience and strategic power.

The anatomy of a conspiracy: Holiday documents Thiel's meticulous, years-long project — funding multiple plaintiffs' lawsuits against Gawker while keeping his involvement secret — until Hogan's verdict bankrupted the company. The book is a philosophical meditation on conspiracy, patience, and the exercise of power, as much as a journalistic account. Raises fundamental questions about whether private funding of litigation is legitimate or democratic backchanneling by the ultra-wealthy.