A Suggestion

Rather than treat me as a deplorable (but disgustingly fashionable) nano-celebrity, the mainstream media should simply review my book "Noticing."

A weird development in the last couple of years is that I’ve become a sort of deplorable minor celebrity who pops up repeatedly in the center-left prestige press not as a writer, but as a fashionable Personality in the scary (but sexy) rightwing Scene. This is despite my not having all that much personality other than being a cheerful but not outgoing old man who spends his days in his closet typing and then walking his dog.

Thus, from a long profile of Mencius Moldbug in The New Yorker:

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

By Ava Kofman

June 2, 2025

… Earlier this year, Yarvin and I had lunch in Washington, D.C., where he had come to celebrate the regime change. He was in his usual getup: bluejeans, Chelsea boots, a rumpled dress shirt under a motorcycle jacket. After taking a few bites of a cheeseburger topped with crispy onions, he pushed his plate away. Last year, he explained, he’d decided to start taking an Ozempic-like drug after a debate with the right-wing commentator Richard Hanania about the relative merits of monarchy and democracy. “I destroyed him in almost every way,” Yarvin said, nudging a tomato with his fork. “But he had one huge advantage, which was that I was fat and he was not.”

The injections seemed to be working. As I ate, Yarvin’s phone filled with messages, some of them complimenting his glow-up. That morning, the Times Magazine had published an interview with him, accompanied by a moody black-and-white portrait. Until recently, Yarvin, with his frazzled curtain of shoulder-length hair and ill-fitting wardrobe, had seemed indifferent to his appearance. Now, wearing his leather jacket, he glared out at the reader through stylishly tousled hair. His friend Steve Sailer, a writer for white-nationalist websites, said he looked like “the fifth Ramone.”

Here’s a suggestion for all the websites in which my name keeps popping up like the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Guardian:

Why don’t you review my book?

And rather than just quote-and-sputter, attempt to think of logical refutations for my evidence.

After all, my anthology is a pretty good summary of why I am now this nano-celebrity. There aren’t really any other reasons why I’ve slowly built a sizable following over the decades.

By the way, my audiobook of Noticing should be available by the end of this week, as should my second video. After the first video’s introduction to IQ, the upcoming one tackles the IQ and Race controversy.