We need to think not of what gives us hope, but of who gives us hope in the midst of this challenge to democracy.

Liberal thinkers are shocked that nations are once again isolating from the world. The real surprise would be if they didn’t ...

Writing under the name Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin advocates for replacing democracy with a monarch-like CEO government, where billionaires call the shots, elections vanish, and the bureaucracy is gutted, ...

Curtis Yarvin has, for about a decade and a half now, been a highly influential figure on Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic right ...

Under his pen name Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin proposed dismantling democratic systems in favour of a technocratic dictatorship. In a 2008 blog, ...

Curtis Yarvin, a once-fringe political blogger better known by his pen name Mencius Moldbug is emerging as an influential figure in shaping Donald Trump’s policy agenda for a potential second term, ...

Under the alias of “Mencius Moldbug”, Yarvin wrote a 120,000-word blog called ‘An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.’ ...

Elon Musk told The Wall Street Journal that the “government is simply the largest corporation.” For the man who has everything, what else would he want? The attempt by the world’s richest man to both ...

He first came to their attention when he was blogging as one Mencius Moldbug and dropped a 120,000-word dung-bomb onto the innocent Intertoobz. From the The New Yorker: ...

Back in 2008, when Obama still symbolised hope and change, Yarvin was quietly uploading screeds under the alias Mencius Moldbug. His pièce de résistance? An Open Letter to Open-Minded ...

In the mid-2000s, writing under the name Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin began articulating a new political philosophy that would become known as the “neo-reactionary” or “dark enlightenment ...