Dark Right

<p>Why is Batman a staple of Right-wing discussions and memes? The entire superhero genre is inherently anti-liberal for even though superheroes generally fight for liberal humanist values they do so outside the law. They are vigilantes and vigilantism only becomes necessary when the liberal system breaks down.</p><p>But the character of Batman particularly after being rebooted in Frank Miller’s <em>The Dark Knight Returns</em> and developed in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy is not just anti-liberal but decidedly Right-wing. The essays in <em>Dark Right</em> show us why focusing on Traditionalist masculinist and New Right themes in Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy but also exploring other films comics and graphic novels.</p><p><em>Dark Right</em> includes essays by the leading cultural critics of the New Right including editors Greg Johnson and Gregory Hood plus Trevor Lynch Jason Reza Jorjani Christopher Pankhurst Will Windsor James J. O’Meara Zachary O. Ray Jonathan Bowden Spencer J. Quinn David Yorkshire and Andrew Hamilton.</p>