From the Archive: Parkland Teen, Thiel’s Bet, Falwell’s Fall

COVID Lab-Leak Controversy • Descent Into QAnon • Inside the New Right [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( From the Archive: Parkland Teen, Thiel’s Bet, Falwell’s Fall Good morning from the Hive newsroom. With two mass shootings in short order across the country, including the nation’s second deadliest school shooting at an elementary school, we wanted to revisit Dave Cullen’s moving 2018 [profile]( of Jaclyn Corin, teenaged survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Corin helped lead the March for Our Lives movement and organize Parkland’s 2018 midterms push. On this Memorial Day, we also wanted to serve up some of our most distinctive pieces from this past year. James Pogue [took us]( inside the New Right, where tech billionaire and MAGA-enthusiast Peter Thiel is placing his biggest bets. Katherine Eban [drew upon]( 100,000 leaked documents in her investigation of the virus-hunting nonprofit at the center of the COVID lab-leak controversy. Ayman M. Mohyeldin and Preeti Varathan [examined]( Rosanne Boyland’s embrace of conspiracist views, which cost her her life at the January 6 Capitol riot. Plus, Gabriel Sherman [chronicled]( the fall of the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right, Jerry Falwell Jr. We’ll be back with the news tomorrow, thanks for reading. [March for Our Lives students at Saint Sabina Academy, in Chicago during June 2018.]( [Meet the Ultra-Organized Teenager Masterminding Parkland’s Midterms Push]( By [Dave Cullen]( [The March for Our Lives movement began with an eruption of anguish. But changing America’s gun laws will take long-term logistical prowess. That’s where Jaclyn Corin comes in. (September 2018)]( [Read more button]( [Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets]( By [James Pogue]( [They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics. (April 2022)]( [Read more button]( [“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy]( By [Katherine Eban]( [Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one. (March 2022)]( [Read more button]( [Rosanne Boyland Was Outside the U.S. Capitol Last January 6. How—And Why—Did She Die?]( By [Ayman M. Mohyeldin and Preeti Varathan]( [The QAnon believer was trampled in a crowd. A year after the insurrection, a friend of her family investigates how Boyland’s embrace of conspiracist views cost her her life. (January 2022)]( [Read more button]( [Inside Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Unlikely Rise and Precipitous Fall at Liberty University]( By [Gabriel Sherman]( [Jerry Falwell Jr. was the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right. Then a sex scandal rocked his marriage and ended his lucrative stewardship of the evangelical education empire founded by his father. In a series of exclusive interviews, Falwell—accompanied by his wife, Becki—describes the events that led to his ouster, their fallout, and why he’s finally ready to admit he never had much use for his father’s church anyway. (January 2022)]( [Read more button]( Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2022 Condé Nast