Main Edition
US
FR
Curtis Yarvin is the philosophical godfather of the so-called ‘New Right’, a movement that defies simple categories and political expectations. His writing under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug explores everything from anti-democracy to accelerationism. He joined UnHerd for an evening of conversation and audience Q&A.
You can watch the full interview above.
Main Edition
US
FR
Join the discussion
Join like minded readers that support our journalism by becoming a paid subscriber
To join the discussion in the comments, become a paid subscriber.
Join like minded readers that support our journalism, read unlimited articles and enjoy other subscriber-only benefits.
SubscribeBit of a rambler Curtis! Reminds me of trying to keep track of Jordan Peterson. Am 30 mins into this so far, need to walk the dog…Well done the interviewer – whose name I cannot remember or find anywhere ?! – for challenging him in some of his more patronising moments, although the last question she asked I actually have lost track of whether he answered it or not and I think he lost track too haha
Flo !!
Lost me at minute one with “Democracy and politics mean the same thing”. Plainly they do not.
If Unherd thinks that this sort of thing is intellectually edgy, they have got another think coming. I don’t know what one would call Yarvin’s scattered, random referencing, but it is not thinking.
I could only listen to this reptile for under 10 minutes, so perhaps the host challenged his ludicrous speech later in the episode. Steve Jobs was not a monarch and was fired from Apple in the first half of his career. When he died, Tim Cook took over the company… not Jobs’ first born male. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone, it made a more popular one because Jobs was a critical consumer who only wanted to make products he would use. Bernie Madoff was a monarch, Harvey Weinstein was a monarch, Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers was a monarch. Where are their companies today? China is not an example of monarchy. All of its development was fueled by foreign investment that sought to exploit cheap labor. Wall Street bottom line thinking was the key to China’s economy; and executives at Apple, Meta, Google etc. all bow at the feet of powerful venture capitalists and stockholders.