Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, is a far-right American blogger and a key figure in the Dark Enlightenment, or neo-reactionary movement (NRx). Along with philosopher Nick Land, Yarvin is considered a founder of this anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement.
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron
In 1973, Curtis Guy Yarvin was born into a liberal, secular family.
In 1985, Curtis Yarvin entered Johns Hopkins's longitudinal Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.
In 1988, Curtis Yarvin graduated from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland.
In 1992, Curtis Yarvin graduated from Brown University.
In 2002, Curtis Yarvin began work on the Urbit networked computing platform.
In 2002, Curtis Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform.
In 2007, Curtis Yarvin began the blog Unqualified Reservations to promote his political views.
In 2007, Curtis Yarvin published "A formalist manifesto" on Unqualified Reservations, outlining his concept of "formalism".
In 2008, Curtis Yarvin first used the term "neoreactionary" to describe his project.
In 2008, the federal response to the financial crisis strengthened Curtis Yarvin's libertarian convictions.
In 2009, Curtis Yarvin pointed to an essay by Peter Thiel, where the latter declared: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible".
In 2009, Curtis Yarvin wrote that since US civil rights programs were "applied to populations with recent hunter-gatherer ancestry and no great reputation for sturdy moral fiber", the result was "absolute human garbage".
In 2011, Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to John Burnham, co-founder of Curtis Yarvin's startup Tlon.
In 2012, Curtis Yarvin wrote about Retire All Government Employees or RAGE.
In 2012, under his pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, Curtis Yarvin gave a talk about "rebooting" the American government at the BIL Conference, advocating for "RAGE" (Retire All Government Employees).
In 2013, Balaji Srinivasan advocated in a speech for a "society run by Silicon Valley ... an opt-in society, ultimately outside the US, run by technology", echoing Curtis Yarvin's ideas.
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin co-founded Tlön Corp to develop Urbit with funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin co-founded the company Tlon to oversee the Urbit project.
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin largely stopped updating his blog to focus on Urbit.
In 2014, Curtis Yarvin stopped writing Unqualified Reservations blog.
In April 2016, Curtis Yarvin announced that Unqualified Reservations had "completed its mission".
In 2016, Curtis Yarvin privately asserted to Milo Yiannopoulos that he had been "coaching Thiel" and that he had watched the 2016 US election at Thiel's house.
In 2016, Curtis Yarvin's invitation to present on Urbit at LambdaConf 2016 led to withdrawals of speakers and sponsors.
In February 2017, Curtis Yarvin came to public attention when Politico reported that Steve Bannon read his blog and communicated with Bannon's aides.
In January 2019, Curtis Yarvin left Tlön Corp, while retaining some involvement with Urbit's development.
In 2019, Curtis Yarvin left the company Tlon.
In 2020, Curtis Yarvin began blogging his views under the page name Gray Mirror, speculating on achieving a fascist coup in America.
In 2020, Curtis Yarvin started writing the Gray Mirror newsletter.
In a May 2021 conversation, Michael Anton said Curtis Yarvin was arguing that a president could "gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully".
In 2021, Curtis Yarvin's wife, Jennifer Kollmer, died. They had two children together.
In 2021, Vice-president JD Vance cited Curtis Yarvin as an influence.
In 2024, Curtis Yarvin married Kristine Militello.
Curtis Yarvin said that if a hypothetical authoritarian president were to take office in January 2025, "you can't continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April".
In January 2025, Curtis Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington D.C., as an informal guest of honor.
In a January 2025 New York Times interview, Curtis Yarvin suggested historical precedent for his reasoning, referencing Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions.
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