{"product_id":"book-di17","title":"The Smallest Minority","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most profane, hilarious, and insightful book I've read in quite a while.\" — BEN SHAPIRO \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Kevin Williamson's gonzo merger of polemic, autobiography, and batsh*t craziness is totally brilliant.\" — JOHN PODHORETZ, \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Smallest Minority\u003c\/i\u003e).\" — JONAH GOLDBERG\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Smallest Minorit\u003c\/i\u003ey is the perfect antidote to our heedless age of populist politics. It is a book unafraid to tell the people that they’re awful.” — \u003ci\u003eNATIONAL REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Williamson is blistering and irreverent, stepping without doubt on more than a few toes—but, then again, that’s kind of the point.\" — \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW CRITERION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Stylish, unrestrained, and straight from the mind of a pissed-off genius.\" — \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eKevin Williamson is \"shocking and brutal\" (RUTH MARCUS, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), \"a total jack**s\" (WILL SALETAN, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"totally reprehensible\" (PAUL KRUGMAN, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamson—the lively, literary firebrand from \u003ci\u003eNational Review \u003c\/i\u003ewho was too hot for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Smallest Minority\u003c\/i\u003e is by no means a memoir, though Williamson does reflect on that “tawdry little episode” with \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e in which he became all-too-intimately acquainted with mob outrage and the forces of tribalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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”), \u003ci\u003eThe Smallest Minority\u003c\/i\u003e is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49375858917680,"sku":"BDdi17","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49375858950448,"sku":"10di17","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/di17-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773838778","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-di17","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}