Curtis Yarvin: podcast appearances and interviews

Curtis Guy Yarvin, born in 1973, is an American software developer and blogger known for his involvement in far-right political discourse. Under the pen name Mencius Moldbug, he authored the blog Unqualified Reservations from 2007 to 2014 and later launched the newsletter Gray Mirror in 2020. Yarvin is recognized for founding the philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement, which advocates for replacing American democracy with an accountable monarchy akin to corporate governance. He argues that American democracy represents a failed experiment and supports a form of governance characterized as neo-monarchist or neo-feudalist. In the realm of technology, Yarvin began developing a personal software project in 2002 that evolved into the Urbit networked computing platform. He co-founded Tlon in 2013 to oversee the Urbit project and helped lead it until 2019. Yarvin returned to the company in 2024, serving as a