At Harvard, the ‘Cathedral’ Clashes with Curtis Yarvin

At Harvard, the ‘Cathedral’ Clashes with Curtis Yarvin

Politics At Harvard, the ‘Cathedral’ Clashes with Curtis Yarvin Increasingly, liberal elites engage, while legacy conservatives gatekeep. “I have had incredible opportunities—immense privilege—here in the cathedral.” This was Harvard Professor Danielle Allen’s satirical jab at prominent New Right theorist Curtis Yarvin in a debate on American democracy at the Harvard Faculty Club earlier this month. “The cathedral,” a term coined by Yarvin in h…

Little known to the general public, however, Curtis Yarvin is one of the most influential and sulphurous thinkers of the trumpist right. Ex-programmer, blogger under the pseudonym of Mencius Moldbug, he theorizes the end of liberal democracy and dreams of a state led by a "king CEO". Behind his appearance as a geek scholar hides a radical thought, nourished by imperial history, political philosophy and libertarian culture. His growing influence …