Coverage
The reporting, in one place.
Every article below is summarized in our own words and linked to its original source. Member tags connect each piece to the people it names. We paraphrase and cite — never reproduce.
Original Analysis
Deep-dive analysis of each session on Dialog's leaked retreat agenda.
Money (Does?) Buy Happiness
Build a Cult · 8 min read
What Science Actually Says — and Why the Answer Changes When You're Worth Ten Figures
Bring Back Nuclear
Build a Cult · 12 min read
The Most Dangerous Energy Source in History Is Being Resurrected by the People Who Need It Most
Navigating WWIII
Build a Cult · 12 min read
The People in the Room Have Already Been to War. Their Software Went First.
Battlefield Technologies
Build a Cult · 11 min read
The President's Sons Invest in Drones. The President Orders 300,000 of Them. The People Who Connect Those Two Facts Meet in Dublin.
How's Your Sex Life?
Build a Cult · 9 min read
The Billionaire Matchmaking App That Leaked Its Own Members
Build-a-Cult
Build a Cult · 12 min read
They Named the Session. We Named the Website. Here's Why.
Build-a-Party
Build a Cult · 10 min read
The Only Political Party That Matters Doesn't Appear on Any Ballot
Original Content
The War in Ones and Zeros
Build a Cult · Jun 18, 2026
Build a Cult's founding essay on Dialog — how a private, invitation-only network of officials and executives operated in secret for two decades, and why organizing the public record is the response.
Featured
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society ↗
WIRED · Jun 16, 2026
WIRED's investigation into the leaked registration data for Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman's secretive Dialog society, naming attendees across government, finance, tech, and the military.
All Coverage
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The War in Ones and Zeros
Build a Cult · Jun 18, 2026
Build a Cult's founding essay on Dialog — how a private, invitation-only network of officials and executives operated in secret for two decades, and why organizing the public record is the response.
Peter Thiel's Dialog network was super secret. A data leak changed that. ↗
Straight Arrow News · Mikael Thalen · Jun 17, 2026
Straight Arrow News corroborates the Dialog leak and cautions that the registration data does not cleanly distinguish members from one-time participants.
Peter Thiel's Super-Secret Society Exposed Through Data Leak ↗
Novara Media · Tom Midlane · Jun 17, 2026
Novara Media's coverage of the Dialog leak, noting that no registrant used a government email address — a practice that sidesteps public-records requests.
Data Breach Exposes Secrets of Peter Thiel's Dialog Retreat ↗
IBTimes UK · Seneca Cabrera · Jun 17, 2026
IBTimes UK reports on the Dialog data breach and the breadth of names appearing in the leaked records.
Data Leak Exposes Peter Thiel's Secret Dialog Network of Politicians, Regulators and Tech Elites ↗
Harici · Jun 17, 2026
Harici summarizes WIRED's reporting on the Dialog network spanning politicians, regulators, and technology executives.
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society ↗
WIRED · Jun 16, 2026
WIRED's investigation into the leaked registration data for Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman's secretive Dialog society, naming attendees across government, finance, tech, and the military.
Peter Thiel's Secret Society Leak: AI Disruption, 'Cult,' and World War III ↗
Cybernews · Jun 1, 2026
Cybernews examines the themes surfaced by the Dialog leak, including retreat agenda sessions on AI disruption.
Hey, I got an exclusive invitation to this off-the-record conference ↗
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science · Andrew Gelman · Feb 16, 2022
Andrew Gelman's 2022 post disclosing a Dialog invitation and its $16,000-plus registration fee — the public record re-cited in 2026.
Dialog (organization) ↗
Wikipedia
Wikipedia's background entry on Dialog, covering its founding and the provenance of the 2026 leak.