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.
Ross Douthat discussed Hardy Boys Mystery Stories 1-2 by Franklin W. Dixon and En El Congo/ in the Jungle (Tintin Facsimil). Jonathan Keeperman recommended Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Pervert and MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville, and discussed No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger.
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 bleak, violent western thriller about a drug deal gone wrong and the relentless hunter pursuing the survivor.
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 viral 2018 text that promotes a vitalist, hyper-masculine philosophy inspired by antiquity while critiquing modern egalitarian culture.
Recommended“O.K Bronze Age mindset, which is one of the great texts of the 21st century. And I encourage all the New York Times’ listeners to read it.”
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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 by Herman Melville is an epic American novel that chronicles the obsessive, self-destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the giant white whale that maimed him.
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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