I'd like to preface this review by pointing out that I like Michael Malice, and I would describe him as my second favorite political commentator. If I could only watch one video per week, then "Your Welcome" would be it. And I expect that if he were to write a book of his opinions on the political issues of the day, then I would agree with most of them and find his others to still be interesting and worth considering.
As someone who is of the new/ alt/ far/ dissident right I may not be the target market for this book. But if this was not meant for people who think like me then I don't know who it is for, and I would not at all recommend this as a book to describe the new/ etc right because it ignores or barely hits the few issues that are the point of the dissident right.
Positives:
The beginning of the book says that Murray Rothbard and Pat Buchanan argue similar points and focus on similar issues as the current far/ etc right. I have not seen this stated before and I found it interesting.
Michael Malice's theory that low culture becomes the norm is not something I have seen before.
I recall a comment that he made that he was unhappy being told by leftists that they were happy he was looking into the right so they did not have to do so themselves. If this had been written by a leftist, then I expect that this whole book would have looked a lot more like the chapter on Jared Taylor where Malice could hardly quote Taylor before pointing out why he is wrong and why he (Malice) disagrees Other than the chapter on Jared Taylor this book was much more evenhanded than I expect any leftist would have been.
Negatives:
No attempt at a definition of the "New Right."
While listening to Malice hype his forthcoming book I thought about what I would ask him about it if given the chance. My first question would have been, "How many chapters did Heartiste get?" (This is especially timely as Wordpress deplatformed Heartiste only a couple of days before the release of this book.) The answer to my question is zero chapters, zero quotes, and zero comments.
Quote from Milo, who correctly got a chapter, on gab approximately the same day this book was released: "The only blog I've ever followed religiously is @Heartiste. Hope it resurfaces as a book or greatest hits collection we can buy. I'd send one to every young man I know."
So my introduction to the "New Right" was ignored. And apparently so was its most important commentator Great Books for Men. If I write a book on the new right the most important question will be, how many GBFM quotes before he needs to be included ans an author.
And indeed of the three "R's" only Roosh got one quote.
Malice missed on many issues I would consider central to the "New Right". So much so that immigration, the media, and education were the only one that got much more than a mention.
I would have at least expected that Malice would have commented on the number of deplatromings the right has to deal with, but other than mention that Milo and Pax Dickinson have been banned from twiter he did no such thing.
This books reads as a description of the authors contacts and meetings with various members of the Alt/ etc right than it does as a description of our ideas, or an introduction to the way wee think the way we do. I understand that the author is a friend of Gavin McIness and therefore he gets a chapter in this book. But, while I don't dislke Gavin, he is known as "alt-lite" where I come from, and hardly warrants a mention.
Issues not addressed in this book: marriage, deplatforming, creation of new platforms, why Trump was elected, Jesus, Moses, Homer, PUAs, MGTOW, sitting poolside, Shakespeare, cancellation and avoidance of "far right" meetups due to lefist violence, Vox Day's 16 points of the Alt Right, controlled opposition such as Jordan Petersen, Mark Twain, the effect of the welfare state upon the country, the ineffectiveness of the conservative movement (although he does have a good comment to the effect of a conservative being a progressive driving the speed limit).
Overall I think that Malice is intelligent and gave a fair shake to the alt/ etc right, but he missed many of the issues we care about; such as the left being divorced from reality on any number of issues. So much so that I would not recommend this book as even an introduction to the "new right." But he does give some space to some of our ideas and does some good commentary on things like the media and education being products of the dishonest lef
better books to read (for at least the aspirations of the alt/ etc right):
1. The Bible
2. Homer's Illiad
3. Homer's Odyssey
4. Exodus & Ecclesiastes & the Psalms
5. Virgil's Aeneid
6. Socrates' Apology
7. The Book of Matthew & Jefferson's Bible
8. Plato's Republic
9. Senecas's Letters from a Stoic
10. Aristotle's Poetics
11. Dante's Inferno
12. The Declaration of Independence
13. The Constitution
14. John Milton's Paradise Lost
15. Shakespeare's Hamlet
16. Newton's Principa
17. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments
18. Thoreau's Walden
19. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn & all of his works
20. Shakespeare's Hamlet
21. Mises' A Theory of Money and Credit
22. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
23. Melville's Moby Dick
24. Einstien's The Meaning of Relativity
25. Joeseph Campbell's The Hero with a thousand Faces
26. Ron Paul's Revolution & Ebd the Fed
27. The Bible
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It wasn't long before she showed me her hand. "I really like a man who loves to read. You always read at a bar?" I nodded. She looked down at the book in my hand. "So... what are you reading?"
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It wasn't long before she showed me her hand. "I really like a man who loves to read. You always read at a bar?" I nodded. She looked down at the book in my hand. "So... what are you reading?"
"The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice" I responded before offering her a glimpse at the cover art illustrated by Ben Garrison. "Oh..." she stuttered. "... isn't he that idiot who thinks HONKLER built the Berlin Wall? He sounds really stupid."
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