Unqualified Reservations: Volume 2 Hardcover

The essential writings of Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, one of the internet’s most influential and controversial political thinkers.

Between 2007 and 2013, a mysterious software engineer writing under the name Mencius Moldbug published a sprawling blog called Unqualified Reservations. This blog was a strange fusion of political philosophy, cultural critique, historiography, and right-wing polemics, never-before-seen in the contemporary American landscape.

In what became the most intellectually explosive body of writing of the early internet age, these essays helped define what would later be called the “Neoreactionary” critique of modernity: a systematic dismantling of progressive orthodoxy and an audacious attempt to imagine the architecture of post-democratic order.

Volume II Highlights

Volume II brings together three of Moldbug’s most influential texts:

• A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
  Serves as the perfect initiation to Moldbug’s core themes. This elegant, wide-ranging labyrinth of reference and analysis turns the language of liberal democracy inside out to reveal the Matrix-like operating system beneath.
• Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century
  Builds on that critique by proposing a radical rethinking of sovereignty through the lens of technology. Moldbug imagines a world divided into thousands of competing, privately governed jurisdictions, optimized for order and exit.
• Moldbug on Carlyle
  Presents the Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle as the first great opponent of egalitarian illusion and the sentimental moralism that sustains it.

Collected here for the first time in print, these writings preserve one of the great intellectual detonations of the early blogosphere. Moldbug’s incisive critiques and playful style still radiate outward from that first shockwave.