SHORTPOD (4): THE DEFENSIVE LIBERALISM OF GEERT WILDERS

A brief podcast by Alternative Right chief editor Colin Liddell, reporting on the site and events in the news.

DYSTOPIAS: FICTION AND FACT

In this latest video log, Andy Nowicki talks about the new movie The Giver, and analyzes the reasons why dystopian scenarios seem to be turning up with greater frequency in YA novels and big-budget movies these days. Is there a nascent fear of an actual dystopia rapidly sneaking up on us? Or are our rulers preparing the ground for a terrifying totalitarian future?

Then, switching gears back to the increasingly dystopic present, Andy discusses the recent travails of Gavin McInnes (the latest victim of PC cultural terrorism), and gently critiques Jim Goad's proposal to revel in mockery and contempt for the intellectually dishonest creeps who rule the current culture and want to shut up all us hearty, hateful, heretical dissidents – we who are keep interfering with their plans to utterly brainwash the populace with incomprehensibly silly ideologies.

The Giver
The travails of Gavin McInnes.
Vigilant Citizen on The Hunger Games
Jim Goad on "How to Deal With the Brainwashed"


Andy Nowicki, co-editor of Alternative Right, is the author of seven books, including Under the Nihil, The Columbine Pilgrim, Considering Suicide, and his latest, Beauty and the Least. He occasionally updates his blog when the spirit moves him to do so.

RIGHT-WING 'LIBERALTARIAN' PRATFALL

by Colin Liddell

It's good to see Gavin McInnes giving his usual sensitive take on the Islamic world, over at Taki's. Yes, he's right. Islam does produce plenty of newsworthy and easy-to-ridicule moments. For a writer of McInnes's sarkiness it must look like one hell of an inviting piñata, although the words "fish," "barrel," and "shooting" also spring to mind.