The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

"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

€œThe 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 €œbeast 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 €œthe 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 €œtawdry 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 (€œan economy of Willy Lomans,€ political hustlers (€œthat certain kind of man or woman€¦who will kiss the collective ass of the mob€), journalists (€œa contemptible union of neediness and arrogance€) and identity politics (€œidentity 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.