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The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics Audiobook (Free)

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‘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 outstanding.’ — JOHN PODHORETZ, Commentary

‘Ideological minorities – including the smallest minority, the individual – can get trampled with the unity stampede (as my pal Kevin Williamson masterfully elucidates in his new book, The Smallest Minority).’ — JONAH GOLDBERG

“The Smallest Minority may be the perfect about THE TINIEST Minority: Independent Considering in the Age of Mob Politics antidote to our heedless age group of populist politics. It really is a book unafraid to tell the people that they’re terrible.” — NATIONAL REVIEW

‘Williamson is blistering and irreverent, stepping unquestionably on more than a few toes—but, then again, that’s sort of the point.’ — THE NEW CRITERION

‘Stylish, unrestrained, and direct from the mind of a pissed-off genius.’ — THE WASHINGTON Free of charge BEACON

Kevin Williamson is certainly ‘shocking and brutal’ (RUTH MARCUS, Washington Post), ‘a total jack port**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 warm for The Atlantic to deal with—involves bury democracy, not to compliment it. With electrifying credibility and spirit, Williamson requires a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many minds” that haunts social media and what presently passes for true to life. It’s destroying our convenience of individualism and dragging us down “the Street to Smurfdom, where the deracinated demos of the Tweets age finds itself feeling small and blue.”

The Smallest Minority is in no way a memoir, though Williamson does reflect on that “tawdry little episode” with The Atlantic where he became all-too-intimately familiar with mob outrage as well as the makes of tribalism.

Rather, this publication is a dizzying tour through a world you’ll become horrified to identify as your own. With biting appraisals of social media (“an economy of Willy Lomans,” politics hustlers (“that specific kind of guy or girl…who will kiss the collective ass of the mob”), journalists (“a contemptible union of neediness and arrogance”) and identity politics (“identification is more available than policy, which requires effort”), The Smallest Minority is definitely a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful reserve in what we humans have done to ourselves.