Born in 1978 in Făgăraș, a city at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, Mihail Neamțu had a first-hand experience of communism, an ideology which he often described in harsh pejorative terms [citation needed].

In parallel, the social conditions of former Soviet countries, as well as the vivid memories of his own life under dictatorship, moved Neamțu's intellectual focus to the area of Western political philosophy.

Thus, he became acquainted with [neutrality is disputed] the great classical tradition, from Plato and Aristotle to Baruch Spinoza, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[12] He gradually developed a critical view of radical modernity, because he believes the latter divorces reason from faith, personal virtue and public legality, economic flourishing and civic duty, sex from love, and the visible from the invisible.

[16] In 2002, Neamțu completed his Master of Arts research at Durham University, with his dissertation "Theology and Language in St Gregory of Nyssa" written under the supervision of Andrew Louth.

Neamțu claimed that the Church bishops gathered at Nicene offered a paradoxical understanding of the consubstantial relationship between the Father and the Son, which subverted the Master and Slave dialectics so rampant in the pagan world (as it is described by Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit).

[19] Whist living in Bucharest, he started to attend private seminars and public workshops [citation needed] focused on the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord Acton, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley Jr.[20] As an affiliate researcher of various conservative NGOs and libertarian think-tanks, he has put together different projects, conferences, and workshops, dedicated to the question of individual liberty and the impact of the governmental action upon the free market and the civil society.

[24] For nearly two decades, Neamțu has written various essays and columns on a variety of topics such as entrepreneurship, the rule of law, education, home-schooling, terrorism, Marxist ideology, and political corruption.

In his foundational document, he said that the citizens of the free world should enter an age of personal responsibility, while politicians should fully grasp, in quasi-Burkean fashion, the meaning of a ‘trans-generational accountability’.

[37] In an article in România libera, Neamțu wrote: Neither the martyr end of figures such as Valeriu Gafencu, killed by the Communists, exonerates the errors and horrors produced by the so-called "ethics of honour".

Thus, in issue 11/47, p. 14 of 1994 of the Siberian magazine Puncte Cardinale, still a minor, Neamțu wrote the following: "Let us ask ourselves then why these numerous "intellectuals", many of them journalists, historians or political analysts [...], cannot understand the Legion and its Captain?

They cannot understand why the Iron Guard was first and foremost a spiritual movement, a school for the restoration of the Romanian soul, in which, as Codreanu said (listening to Christ's teaching, Mark 11, 23), 'he who believes without limits' enters and 'he who doubts' remains outside' "[39] In a book published in 2010, Mihail Neamțu explained the sympathies betrayed by this article published at the age of 16, describing them as "childish paragraphs" and blaming them on "historical and sentimental ignorance", against the background of which he allowed himself to be influenced by discussions with former political prisoners in Arad in the context of a "crisis of values [and a] need for reference points for an entire generation formed after 1989".