The Smallest Minority

"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.