"I don't want to hurt them. I want to free them, basically," he says of New York's liberal intelligentsia. "When you look at these institutions, they're composed of very, very good people." 'The only way that they can explain kind of the bad work that these structures do, and the bad state in which they leavete the country, is to say that they're all evil,' she adds.
Former computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson.
His theories of power seem to have made their way from the fringe blogosphere into the mainstream media. Now, people are trying to make sense of some of what Yarvin wants for the Western nations he criticises and where his thinking might go next.
One particularly bold claim made by Yarvin is that America would be better run as a monarchy, rather than a democracy.
To dig deeper into this esoteric political philosophy, Freddie Sayers invited Curtis Yarvin to the UnHerd studio.
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