The Smallest Minority
Subtitle: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
Publisher: Gateway Editions
Published: Jul 23, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781621579687
Description: "Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamson&#x2014;the lively, literary firebrand from National Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle&#x2014;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&#x2019;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&#x2019;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&#x2026;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."  -- provided by publisher

Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the "beast with many heads" that haunts social media and is destroying our capacity for individualism. Himself at times a victim of mob outrage and the forces of tribalism, Williamson provides a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves. -- adapted from jacket
Notes: Source title: The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics