A Debate with Curtis Yarvin

You asked me to give you the record of liberalism and you asked me to give you the record of liberalism because the conjunct trip that both of you do is to look at all the bad elements in the soci in the world today and say all the bad things are because of liberalism, none of the good things are because of liberalism. And somehow the world was better at some other time, at least that's what Curtis seems to suggest. And that is just not the case. And now the good fight. with Yasha Monk.

One of my favorite shows, The Flying Circus by Monty Python, likes to announce sketches with the words, and now for something completely different. That is the spirit of this episode of the podcast, which is actually a recording of a debate I had last September with a feminist called Mina Salami and a certain aspiring king of the tech world and perhaps the political world called Curtis Javin, the founder of the so-called neo-reactionary tradition. We discussed and debated about whether or not liberalism is in fact the right way to govern ourselves.

A position that I defended and my distinguished co-panelists attacked. Curtis and I had a number of interesting exchanges about what exactly a world ruled by a king CEO might actually look like. We didn't always see eye to eye as you can imagine, but I think this episode will showcase in an interesting way a lot of the ideas that have a surprising amount of influence in the world today. As you know, normally we reserve a portion of this conversation to paying subscribers.

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