Mencius Moldbug

Education: The Johns Hopkins University Brown University University of California, Berkeley

Spouse(s): Jennifer Kollmer (died. 2021)

Born in 1973 to a highly educated, liberal, secular family and is paternally Jewish. He has two children with his late wife, Jennifer Kollmer (1971–2021), who died in San Francisco in April 2021 as a result of complications caused by hereditary cardiomyopathy. Yarvin spent part of his childhood abroad, mainly on the island of Cyprus. In 1985, he returned to the US and entered Johns Hopkins' longitudinal Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. He attended Brown University from 1988, graduating from Brown in 1992, then dropped out of the Computer Science Division of UC Berkeley. He states on his blog that his parents and stepfather were career officers in United States Foreign Service, and that he returned from abroad to attend public high school in Columbia, Maryland at age 12.