The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics Audiobook
The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics Audiobook
- Stephen Graybill
- Brilliance Audio
- 2019-09-17
- 6 h 44 min
Summary:
‘The most profane, hilarious, and insightful book I’ve read in quite a while.’ — BEN SHAPIRO
‘Kevin Williamson’s gonzo merger of polemic, autobiography, and batsh*t craziness is totally excellent.’ — JOHN PODHORETZ, Commentary
‘Ideological minorities – like the smallest minority, the individual – will get trampled by the unity stampede (as my friend Kevin Williamson masterfully elucidates in his brand-new book, The Smallest Minority).’ — JONAH GOLDBERG
“The Smallest Minority is the perfect about The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in age Mob Politics antidote to our heedless age group of populist politics. It really is a reserve unafraid to tell the individuals who they’re awful.” — NATIONAL REVIEW
‘Williamson is blistering and irreverent, moving unquestionably on lots of toes—but, then again, that’s kind of the idea.’ — THE NEW CRITERION
‘Stylish, unrestrained, and right from your brain of the pissed-off genius.’ — THE WASHINGTON Free of charge BEACON
Kevin Williamson can be ‘shocking and brutal’ (RUTH MARCUS, Washington Post), ‘a total jack**s’ (WILL SALETAN, Slate), and ‘totally reprehensible’ (PAUL KRUGMAN, NY Times).
Audience beware: Kevin D. Williamson—the energetic, literary firebrand from National Review who was simply too warm for The Atlantic to deal with—comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying credibility and nature, Williamson requires a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media marketing and what presently passes for true to life. It’s destroying our convenience of individualism and dragging us down “the Street to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos from the Tweets age finds itself feeling small and blue.”
The Smallest Minority is in no way a memoir, though Williamson will reflect on that “tawdry small episode” using the Atlantic in which he became all-too-intimately acquainted with mob outrage and the makes of tribalism.
Rather, this reserve can be a dizzying tour through a world you’ll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media (“an economy of Willy Lomans,” politics hustlers (“that particular kind of guy or woman…who will kiss the collective ass of the mob”), journalists (“a contemptible union of neediness and arrogance”) and identification politics (“identity is more accessible than plan, which requires effort”), THE TINIEST Minority can be a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful publication about what we humans have done to ourselves.