"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.
