The Stakes: The American Monarchy?
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
In this special edition of The American Mind Podcast, Michael Anton, former Trump official and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, is joined by Curtis Yarvin, formerly “Mencius Moldbug” of the successful blog “Unqualified Reservations.” The two debate what to do if and when the current regime crumbles under the weight of its own incompetence. Yarvin makes his case for a Big Tech CEO-turned-monarch.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone, to another special edition of the American Mind podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | This is for now going to be SMI regular one. |
| 0:08.6 | The last one with Mike Anton as usual host. |
| 0:11.5 | Our last one was a conversation between Mike Anton and Charles Haywood of the |
| 0:16.0 | worthy house, a friend of Claremont as well. |
| 0:19.7 | This this interview is with Curse Yarvan, who's was known for many years as |
| 0:24.9 | a mental small bug who ran a website called Unqualified Reservations. |
| 0:30.4 | He can now be found at the gray mirror on Substack Curtis. |
| 0:35.2 | I should say at the outset and you'll get the sense from Michael in this podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | Of course, disagrees with the Claremont Institute on quite a bit of quite a few |
| 0:44.4 | premises of American government of really the sources of good government in general. |
| 0:51.0 | Curtis calls himself a monarchist, but we thought the conversation |
| 0:54.6 | worth worth having because Curtis has built quite a following diagnosing the |
| 0:59.9 | current ills of American government and his diagnosis was often very |
| 1:04.9 | astute. Curtis is a not one of these auto didax from the tech world who's |
| 1:09.4 | read a lot has thought a lot about modern government and its pathologies in |
| 1:14.2 | America and elsewhere. |
| 1:15.9 | He's also a generous interlocutor with us. |
| 1:19.4 | So Mike Anton thought it would be nice to sit down with Curtis, really continue |
| 1:23.2 | a conversation. |
| 1:23.9 | They started on the Jack Murphy podcast kind of debate between the two of them. |
| 1:28.9 | And I get get into these issues that we're all concerned about, |
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