There are occasions when I have the privilege and opportunity to listen to fascinating and extremely learned presentations ...

Karp, the C.E.O. of the software company Palantir Technologies, and his aide-de-camp Nicholas W. Zamiska, demonstrates how ...

under the name Mencius Moldbug. And he became someone who was kind of giving voice to a nascent kind of what was called neo-reactionary or Dark Enlightenment sentiment in Silicon Valley ...

Who are the minds behind DOGE, and what do they really believe? Historian Quinn Slobodian says three strains of conservatism have converged to form the second Trump administration’s anti-democratic ...

In this environment, a Hope-influenced programmer named Curtis Yarvin was writing his original (and intellectually challenging) texts under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. ΠFirstly, he criticizes the ...

Aged in his early fifties, Yarvin first came to prominence in the late 2000s with his blog Unqualified Reservations in which he outlined his ideas under the pen name Mencius Moldbug. In the posts ...