Here's the Thing: Selected Interviews Volume 2

In his interviews Greg Johnson is known for expressing radical and sometimes shocking ideas in a calm rational unapologetic manner. Heres the Thing collects ten of his best interviews from 2014 to 2018.The interviews with Darryl Cooper Tara McCarthy and Lana Lokteff offer a basic introduction to White Nationalism and the New Right. The first of two conversations with Hugh MacDonald focuses on the treacherous charge of racism and different ways to handle it. The conversation with Millennial Woes answers the centrist civic nationalist objections of video commentator Sargon of Akkad. The discussion with J.M. answers common questions and objections from normies.The volume then takes a more philosophical turn. A second conversation with Hugh MacDonald offers a nuanced defense of some forms of vanity pretentiousness and snobbery. Then Johnson discusses the foundations of White Nationalism and the New Right with an anonymous philosophy professor.The book ends with two brief interviews with mainstream journalists Maureen OConnor and Liz Bruenig that were never published.Topics include White Nationalism the New Right multiculturalism imperialism ethnonationalism the Jewish question the concept of race populism elitism economic policy sexual politics modernity metapolitics and hegemony as well as such thinkers as Plato Aristotle Vico Nietzsche Spengler Schmitt and Heidegger.Heres the Thing offers an accessible introduction to the basics of White Nationalism and the New Right - and how they touch on a wide variety of philosophical political and cultural issues - in a relaxed and conversational style.