Curtis Yarvin

Curtis Yarvin is one of those rare people where you have to genuinely separate the thinker from the ideas — and I find that exercise genuinely interesting. A Brown-educated computer scientist who spent years building Urbit, a fascinatingly weird attempt to redesign the internet from the ground up, Yarvin clearly has the intellectual horsepower to do serious work. But he's probably better known as Mencius Moldbug, the pen name behind the neo-reactionary movement, where he argues that democracy is basically broken and that what the West needs is something closer to a sovereign CEO. It's provocative, deliberately elitist, and written in a sprawling, almost Victorian style that either pulls you in or loses you in the first paragraph. Love him or find him alarming, he's not borrowing anyone else's framework — and in an era of hot takes recycled from Twitter, that kind of original (if deeply contentious) thinking is at least worth understanding.

Name (English)

Curtis Yarvin

Name (Japanese)

カーティス・ヤーヴィン

Reading

かーてぃす・やーゔぃん

Born

June 25, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Occupation

computer scientist / political theorist / blogger

High school

Wilde Lake High School

University

Brown University

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3

Tags

• New York
• computer scientist
• political theorist
• blogger

Last updated

2026-06-02

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