Curtis Yarvin
Personal Information
Description
Education: The Johns Hopkins University Brown University University of California, Berkeley Spouse(s): Jennifer Kollmer (died. 2021) Born in 1973 to a highly educated, liberal, secular family and is paternally Jewish. He has two children with his late wife, Jennifer Kollmer (1971–2021), who died in San Francisco in April 2021 as a result of complications caused by hereditary cardiomyopathy. Yarvin spent part of his childhood abroad, mainly on the island of Cyprus. In 1985, he returned to the US and entered Johns Hopkins' longitudinal Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. He attended Brown University from 1988, graduating from Brown in 1992, then dropped out of the Computer Science Division of UC Berkeley. He states on his blog that his parents and stepfather were career officers in United States Foreign Service, and that he returned from abroad to attend public high school in Columbia, Maryland at age 12.
Books
An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
This open letter challenges everything you thought you knew about politics and history. We all like to think our minds are open—but is yours open enough to proceed?
Technology, communism and the Brown Scare
Technology is but the latest in a long line of industries to fall victim to the Brown Scare—America’s ginormous, never-ending, profoundly insane witch-hunt for fascists under the bed. Why does the Brown Scare grow even as its enemies shrink? Hint: America is a communist country.
Moldbug on Carlyle
Challenge your political preconceptions with Mencius Moldbug’s controversial introduction to the ultimate reactionary, Victorian writer and historian Thomas Carlyle.
Sam Altman is Not a Blithering Idiot
Major parts of American cities that were thriving in 1950 have now fallen into chaos and ruin. Meanwhile, Palo Alto is full of beautiful young people adoring every detail of their new Retina iPads. Which of these phenomena is more relevant? Which is the narrative, which the distraction? And what would Sam Altman think?
Patchwork
Enter Patchwork, Mencius Moldbug’s inspiring vision of a political system for the 21st century. Patchwork’s innovative design, which relies on sovereign joint-stock republics with cryptographic governance, brings the promise of clean streets, negligible crime, invincible robot armies, and world peace.
How Dawkins Got Pwned
Discover how scientist Richard Dawkins got pwned by Universalism, the world’s most powerful parasitic memeplex. The worst part: you could be infected, too.
A formalist manifesto
This is the inaugural installment from Unqualified Reservations, the blog widely credited with founding the modern political philosophy of "neoreaction" (NRx). Whether you’re a neophyte or a seasoned NRx veteran, you’ll enjoy (re)visiting the classic post that started it all.
A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
This provocative volume contains a concentrated dose of Unqualified Reservations, the ultimate political Red Pill. Are you ready to escape the Matrix? Let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes…