What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute ...

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In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading “An Open Letter to ...

A screenshot of a March 2016 story appearing on conservative blog Breitbart, about functional programming conference LambdaConf deciding to retain Curtis Yarvin as a speaker. The acronym “SJW” stands ...

How the blogger formerly known as Mencius Moldbug came to exert a quiet influence on the corporate and political far right. (Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

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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 Progressives—a ...

Vox has a new article on Curtis Yarvin, a software engineer and far-right blogger who’s made friends with powerful supporters of former president Donald Trump, and it’s filled with horrifying ideas on ...

What does a bizarre project to reinvent software from the ground up have in common with 19 th-century reactionary political philosophy? That question has become the unlikely heart of a computing ...

In the 2000s, Curtis Yarvin was a programmer with two projects. One was personal and turned him into a favorite philosopher of the alt-right: the blog Unqualified Reservations, which he started in ...