If you follow me on here you know that I've been reading a LOT of books trying to understand the modern alt-right and this is by far the most cogent and insightful. In fact, I get it now. And what I get is that I can't get it because the whole thing has been gestating in some parallel internet world ...more

This book is incredibly informative and insightful. The power of a shitposting, nihilistic subculture to influence the language and arguments that form our discourse is disheartening but necessary to understand. ...more

I think this is the most important book I've ever read.

I became active on the internet (mostly on Reddit) in late 2014, just a kid looking for a place to discuss my favorite books and cartoons. And as I learned more about the culture of different sites, I watched from the sidelines as the internet, ...more

IT CAME FROM SOMETHING AWFUL is a better version of KILL ALL NORMIES (a book that many people, including myself, overrated at the time of its publication but whose flaws are now clearer in the wake of Angela Nagle's open embrace of right-wing positions and personalities.) Beran benefits from his pe ...more

I remember reading an interview with David Simon about the real life people that inspired the main characters on The Wire: The street level wheelers and dealers that sway with the tides of power and sometimes influence it in their own weird way, all connected in a twisted ecosystem. Heroes and villa ...more