Unqualified Reservations: Volume 2

by Curtis Yarvin

408 pages, Hardcover

Published December 2, 2025

About the author

Curtis Guy Yarvin is an American political theorist and software developer. He is known for advocating the replacement of democracy with a monarchy headed by a CEO or dictator, often using the pen name Mencius Moldbug.

Reviews

[Greg Manns · Rating 5 out of 5]

Volume 2 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, an elegant, wide-ranging labyrinth of reference and analysis that 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, imagining a world divided into thousands of competing, privately governed jurisdictions. Finally, “Moldbug on Carlyle” presents the Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle as the first great opponent of egalitarianism and the sentimental moralism that sustains it.