The Smallest Minority, Kevin D. Williamson
The Smallest Minority, Kevin D. Williamson
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The Smallest Minority
Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

Author: Kevin D. Williamson

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2019


Synopsis

"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 brilliant." — JOHN PODHORETZ, Commentary "Ideological minorities – including the smallest minority, the individual – can get trampled by the unity stampede (as my friend Kevin Williamson masterfully elucidates in his new book, The Smallest Minority)." — JONAH GOLDBERG “The Smallest Minority is the perfect antidote to our heedless age of populist politics. It is a book unafraid to tell the people that they’re awful.” — NATIONAL REVIEW "Williamson is blistering and irreverent, stepping without doubt on more than a few toes—but, then again, that’s kind of the point." — THE NEW CRITERION "Stylish, unrestrained, and straight from the mind of a pissed-off genius." — THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON Kevin Williamson is "shocking and brutal" (RUTH MARCUS, Washington Post), "a total jack**s" (WILL SALETAN, Slate), and "totally reprehensible" (PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times). Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamson—the lively, literary firebrand from National Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle—comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. It’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down “the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.” The Smallest Minority is by no means a memoir, though Williamson does reflect on that “tawdry little episode” with The Atlantic 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 you’ll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media (“an economy of Willy Lomans,” political hustlers (“that certain kind of man or woman…who will kiss the collective ass of the mob”), journalists (“a contemptible union of neediness and arrogance”) and identity politics (“identity is more accessible than policy, which requires effort”), The Smallest Minority is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves.

About Kevin D. Williamson

Kevin D. Williamson is a reporter and columnist for the New York Post and National Review. His work has appeared everywhere from the Washington Post to Academic Questions to Playboy. He began his journalism career at the Bombay-based Indian Express Newspaper Group. He has served as the theater critic for The New Criterion and taught at The King's College, New York. He is also the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on May 10, 2019

Kevin D. Williamson is an extremist – his choice of word. He disdains most everyone and everything, like a good conservative, and is also a proud libertarian. He detests Donald Trump and his administration, thinks abortion is premeditated murder, and loves to call people very, shall we say, colorful......more

Goodreads review by Vivek on April 29, 2020

"The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking In The Age of Mob Politics" - a book by Kevin D. Williamson - is perhaps the most necessary and hilarious diagnosis of the great societal disease that has plagued our modern sense of citizenship throughout this decade. That disease is social media ochlocra......more

Goodreads review by John Eick on May 16, 2019

For my money, Kevin D. Williamson is one of the most insightful, engaging, and downright interesting commentators on the political right today. I'm a loyal reader of his columns and dispatches in National Review and enjoyed reading his theater reviews that used to run in The New Criterion. If there'......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on May 18, 2019

[Full disclosure: Product was an uncorrected proof received for free. I was contacted by the Publisher through this website, to read and review the book. Honestly one of the coolest things that has happened to me in the age of the internet.] I read every article Kevin writes, I learned about Kevin wh......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on October 06, 2019

The author might have some interesting ideas, but instead of expressing them, he'd rather just belt out serial insults at things he disagrees with. Nothing novel here to engage with. Skip it.......more