And, in fact, Laphroaig does taste like burning plastic. But it’s good burning plastic. ~Mencius Moldbug (that’s the name he uses–really) I second that. My introduction to Laphroaig was at the recent ...

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 ...

So, apparently, Steve Bannon appreciates Mencius Moldbug, leading neo-reactionary. I said what I had to say about Moldbug and his ilk four years ago, here. I flatter myself to think that I took him ...

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 ...

Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti ...

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 ...

How the blogger formerly known as Mencius Moldbug came to exert a quiet influence on the corporate and political far right. In a sanely configured political-media sphere, Curtis Yarvin—the blogger ...