Episode · Interesting Times · 2025-05-01
Books mentioned on The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Offensive | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
The Trump era is ushering in a new age of right wing counterculture, one defined by masculinity and transgression.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hardy Boys Mystery Stories 1-2
Discussed“You publish the Hardy Boys, the original Hardy Boys before some multicultural PC cleanups, correct.”
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a dark, suspenseful novel that examines violence, fate, and moral decay in the American West through the cat-and-mouse chase between a hunter and a ruthless killer.
Discussed“Sure no country for Old Men as an example, but it’s not self-consciously right wing, right. I doubt, the Coen brothers would call themselves on the right. And I don’t even know if Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the book. It’s based on.”
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Bronze Age Mindset
Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Pervert is a controversial ideological text of the twenty-first century that critiques modern society from a radical, fringe perspective emphasizing physical vitality and classical heroism.
Discussed“Anyone who goes from this conversation. And gets a copy of Bronze Age mindset and reads, certain paragraphs will say, well, this guy is a terrific racist, right.”
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The Forest Passage
Discussed“and actually a passage press comes from the book forest passage by Ernst jünger.”
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En El Congo/ in the Jungle (Tintin Facsimil)
Discussed“One of the early Tintin books is called Tintin in the Congo. And it’s super racist. Like it is a set of super racist caricatures of Africans”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is an epic American masterpiece detailing Captain Ahab's obsessive, destructive quest for vengeance against the giant white whale that maimed him, interwoven with exhaustive details of nineteenth-century whaling.
Recommended“So the book I would choose for this is Moby Dick, and it’s a very obvious cliché choice, but it’s a thing that kind of everybody from all ages if you’re an American, this is a book you just should know. I think Moby Dick is essentially American”
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