Anton Shekhovtsov(@A_SHEKH0VTS0V):The private society Dialog spent twenty years keeping its name out of the newspapers; now it’s suing to get into the law reports. Stonebrick LLC – the company that runs the secret meetings of Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman – is now suing the Powerscourt Hotel in Dublin’s Commercial Court over its cancelled August retreat, which was due to end today. In its own sworn pleadings, it concedes the scale it once hid: around a thousand members, three flagship gatherings a year, and a €1.9 million bill for one lost weekend. Who those members and participants are, how the lists of invitees changed over time, and why so many of them are European, is the story I told a few weeks ago. “The Dialog Files”:

2026.08.16 11:22

The private society Dialog spent twenty years keeping its name out of the newspapers; now it’s suing to get into the law reports. Stonebrick LLC – the company that runs the secret meetings of Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman – is now suing the Powerscourt Hotel in Dublin’s Commercial Court over its cancelled August retreat, which was due to end today. In its own sworn pleadings, it concedes the scale it once hid: around a thousand members, three flagship gatherings a year, and a €1.9 million bill for one lost weekend. Who those members and participants are, how the lists of invitees changed over time, and why so many of them are European, is the story I told a few weeks ago. “The Dialog Files”: