The MacArthur Society’s April 2026 Commanders Call featured “Yuri Bezmenov” as our first anonymous guest speaker. He writes a bestselling Substack under that pseudonym, which focuses on the ideological subversion in modern America that the real Yuri (a defector from the Soviet KGB) warned us about in the 1980s.

His family escaped communism and the CCP cultural revolution. Yet he encountered DEI struggle sessions at his Ivy League alma mater and tech/finance career.

He is currently a venture capital investor at a firm focused on solving civilizational problems to build the America we want our grandchildren to live in.

His presentation focused on countering subversion in our culture through independent media, humor, and the parallel economy. He also took questions from the audience.

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Yuri posted his speech on his Substack:

My Remarks to American Service Academy Alumni