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Jun 10, 2026
Nina L. Khrushcheva
Apocalyptic thinking is seeping into the political discourse, with figures like Peter Thiel, Pete Hegseth, and Aleksandr Dugin portraying political differences as struggles between good and evil. When rivals become mortal enemies, the instruments of politics and diplomacy cannot work.
NEW YORK—From the Kremlin to the White House to Silicon Valley, the Antichrist—or at least talk of it—is coming. The concept amounts to little more than obscure theological conjecture, arising largely from Saint Paul’s cryptic mention of a “man of lawlessness” who will “exalt himself over everything that is called God,” and sit in God’s temple, “proclaiming himself to be God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3–4). But, for a small group of rich and powerful men, the Antichrist has become the lens through which they view the world.
