Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) is an American software developer and political essayist. He created the decentralized computing platform Urbit and co-founded Tlon, the company established to develop it. Writing under the name Mencius Moldbug on the blog "Unqualified Reservations," he helped shape the anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian movement known as neoreaction, or NRx. In "Neo Kunshuron: Minshushugi no Haiboku to Tekku Uha no Jidai," a book published for Japanese readers, Yarvin argues that electoral democracy obscures responsibility for government and proposes transferring authority to an “accountable monarch” resembling a corporate chief executive. He also discusses the Trump administration, the technology right, relations with China, and his proposal for rebuilding Japan as a “startup nation.”
