So a lot of people look up to him as something of an intellectual light, which is interesting if you actually read any of his work, because, well… I call him outright stupid in my book, and I’m gonna largely stand by that. He’s been on the Tucker Carlson show, which did a fair bit to mainstream him. He’s just a guy a lot of these people look to as kind of an intellectual light. We have very strong evidence that he’s had influence on Steve Bannon. Vance, as that Vanity Fair article makes clear. We know he’s got influence on Blake Masters and J.D. He has a demonstrably huge influence on Peter Thiel. Yarvin has been quite influential on a number of key people. These days he uses his real name Curtis Yarvin, but I still think of him as Moldbug because that’s what he was going by when I wrote about him.
The artist formerly known as Moldbug? Sandifer It was formulated by Curtis Yarvin, who writes under the pen name Mencius Moldbug, or formerly wrote. Neoreaction is one attempt of modern far right philosophy-we can just go ahead and call it fascism-to create an intellectual basis. RobinsonĮlizabeth Sandifer, I need you to help us understand this neoreactionary tendency. This interview has been edited and condensed for grammar and clarity. Robinson on the Current Affairs podcast to sort things out. Is this a fringe intellectual tendency that can be ignored, or a budding movement? Sandifer spoke with editor-in-chief Nathan J. Vance of Ohio and Blake Masters of Arizona, both of whom have close ties to Peter Thiel, the PayPal billionaire, and also to a rather mysterious and lesser-known public intellectual by the name of Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a.
Pogue argues that there is a new tendency in right-wing thought that is influencing some prominent Republican candidates for office, including J.D. She has taken a deep dive into the thoughts and writings of the so-called neoreactionary movement, or the “new right,” a tendency highlighted in a recent Vanity Fair article by James Pogue, who reported from the National Conservative Conference. Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.
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