The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob

The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

"The most profane, hilarious, and insightful book I've read in quite a while." â‚¬"Â BEN SHAPIROÂ

"Kevin Williamson's gonzo merger of polemic, autobiography, and batsh*t craziness is totally brilliant." â‚¬" JOHN PODHORETZ,Â Commentary

"Ideological minorities â‚¬â€œ including the smallest minority, the individual â‚¬â€œ can get trampled by the unity stampede (as my friend Kevin Williamson masterfully elucidates in his new book,Â The Smallest Minority)." â‚¬" JONAH GOLDBERG

â‚¬Å“The Smallest Minority is the perfect antidote to our heedless age of populist politics. It is a book unafraid to tell the people that theyâ‚¬re awful.â‚¬Â â‚¬"Â NATIONAL REVIEW

"Williamson is blistering and irreverent, stepping without doubt on more than a few toesâ‚¬"but, then again, thatâ‚¬s kind of the point." â‚¬"Â THE NEW CRITERION

"Stylish, unrestrained, and straight from the mind of a pissed-off genius." â‚¬"Â THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACONÂ

Kevin Williamson is "shocking and brutal" (RUTH MARCUS,Â Washington Post), "a total jack**s" (WILL SALETAN,Â Slate), and "totally reprehensible" (PAUL KRUGMAN,Â New York Times).Â

Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamsonâ‚¬"the lively, literary firebrand fromÂ National ReviewÂ who was too hot forÂ The AtlanticÂ to handleâ‚¬"comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the â‚¬Å“beast with many headsâ‚¬Â that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. Itâ‚¬s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down â‚¬Å“the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.â‚¬Â

The Smallest MinorityÂ is by no means a memoir, though Williamson does reflect on that â‚¬Å“tawdry little episodeâ‚¬Â withÂ The AtlanticÂ in which he became all-too-intimately acquainted with mob outrage and the forces of tribalism.

Rather, this book is a dizzying tour through a world youâ‚¬ll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media (â‚¬Å“an economy of Willy Lomans,â‚¬Â political hustlers (â‚¬Å“that certain kind of man or womanâ‚¬Â¦who will kiss the collective ass of the mobâ‚¬Â), journalists (â‚¬Å“a contemptible union of neediness and arroganceâ‚¬Â) and identity politics (â‚¬Å“identity is more accessible than policy, which requires effortâ‚¬Â),Â The Smallest MinorityÂ is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves.

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Country USA
Brand Gateway Editions
Manufacturer Regnery Gateway
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-07-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781621579687

Country	USA
Brand	Gateway Editions
Manufacturer	Regnery Gateway
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-07-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781621579687

The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

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