Mencius Moldbug
American software engineer and political writer, known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug. His online essays helped shape the neoreactionary (NRx) intellectual movement. He has also been involved in the Urbit software project.
Books
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1. How Dawkins Got Pwned
A biting, polemical essay that critiques a prominent scientific atheist’s public arguments against religion, arguing they rest on simplistic assumptions about belief, reason, and social order; it contends that purely scientific rebuttals miss the historical and institutional functions of religion, exposes rhetorical and logical weaknesses in the atheist’s interventions, and urges attention to political, cultural, and institutional realities that science-based critique tends to ignore.
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2. An Open Letter To Open Minded Progressives
This polemical essay challenges mainstream progressive assumptions, arguing that contemporary liberal institutions and democratic processes have produced stagnation and moral posturing rather than effective governance. It critiques the cultural and institutional consensus that shapes modern politics, urges readers to confront inconvenient historical realities, and advances heterodox proposals favoring order, decentralization of political legitimacy, and governance modeled on more hierarchical or corporate forms rather than mass democracy.