Curtis Yarvin

Yarvin came to public attention in February 2017 when Politico magazine reported that Steve Bannon, who served as White House Chief Strategist under U.S. President Donald Trump, read Yarvin's blog and that Yarvin "has reportedly opened up a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary". The story was picked up by other magazines and newspapers, including The Atlantic, The Independent, and Mother Jones. Yarvin jokingly told The Atlantic that his White House contact was the Twitter user Bronze Age Pervert, though to Vox he denied being in contact with Bannon in any way. Yarvin later gave a copy of Bronze Age Pervert's book Bronze Age Mindset to Michael Anton, a former senior national security official in the Trump administration.

In 2015, his invitation to speak at the Strange Loop programming conference about Urbit was rescinded following complaints made by other attendees. In 2016, his invitation to the LambdaConf functional programming conference resulted in the withdrawal of five speakers, two subconferences, and several sponsors.

Yarvin largely stopped updating his blog in 2013, when he began to focus on his tech startup Urbit. Six years later, he returned to political writing with a series of five essays published by the Claremont Institute's online publication The American Mind.

Under his Moldbug pseudonym, Yarvin gave a talk about "rebooting" the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym "RAGE", which he defined as "Retire All Government Employees". Acting as a provocateur, he highlighted perceived discrepancies in the popular attitudes toward fascism and communism, identifying what he felt were flaws in the accepted "World War II mythology" and alluding to the idea that Hitler's invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America's "ruling communists", who invented political correctness as an "extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists". "If Americans want to change their government", he said, "they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia".

Yarvin originally called his idea to align property rights with political power "formalism" (a concept based on legal formalism). The label "neo-reactionary" was applied to Yarvin's ideas by Arnold Kling in 2010 and adopted by Yarvin's followers; Yarvin has said he prefers the label "restorationist". His ideas have also been described by Dylan Matthews of Vox as "neo-monarchist".

In 2002 Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform. In 2019 he resigned from Tlon, the company he co-founded to manage and develop Urbit.

Curtis Guy Yarvin (born June 25, 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right blogger. Yarvin and his ideas are often associated with the alt-right. From 2007 to 2014 he authored a blog called "Unqualified Reservations" which argued that American democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced by totalitarianism. He is known, along with fellow "neo-reactionary" Nick Land, for developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind the Dark Enlightenment.