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Dudley Newright is Curating Substack
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Dudley Newright is Curating Substack

Walt Right Perspectives - Episode 74

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I interview

, the editor and curator of the .

Like a lot of content creators on Substack I owe a tremendous debt to Dudley, who has aggressively amplified my ideas over the past year. Given this I wanted to spend some time interviewing him about his own journey on Substack and plans for the future.

We also discuss Dudley’s first original article, which has recently gone viral:

The Upheaval
On Millennial Snot
Dudley Newright is the author of the New Right Poast, a newsletter diligently cataloguing and curating the latest and best – and most hilarious and/or cringeworthy – content, personalities, and internet drama bubbling up out of the so-called “New Right.” It’s fun, irreverent, refreshingly light-hearted, and actually quite useful for those like me who’re not on social media but still…
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Topics include:

  • How NRP collates writings, podcasts, etc. in this scene into a one stop shop

  • Dudley’s plans for both horizontal and vertical expansion

  • Anyone interested in being an intern for NRP should reach out to Dudley

  • The tension in creative circles between curation vs scalability and where Dudley comes down in this continuum

  • How Dudley originally got into amplifying heterodox right wing voices

  • Why Dudley hasn’t monetized his publication yet

  • How publications like Dudley’s remove the need to ReplyGuy in order to grow

  • Why Dudley chose “New Right” over “Dissident Right”

  • Should the “New Right” have an ideological litmus test?

  • Do antisemites *really* care about Palestinians?

  • Dudley’s brilliant roast of this side of Substack:

  • The “Kaschuta Guest Right”

  • The tendency of high openness people to repress their own disgust impulses

  • The need for the Right to play with irony and relativism

  • Dudley’s background in media

  • Dudley’s first original article On Millennial Snot

  • The inability of Millennials to age gracefully

  • How gerontocracy and the crisis of competence prevents Gen X and Millennial leaders from developing real gravitas

  • Older people are constantly exposed to youth while modern incentive structures promote living in a childish way

  • Spread of pop culture encourages a hyper-curated self-presentation

  • Irony makes it less terrifying to be seen and not taking anything seriously is a hedge against being criticized too harshly

  • Women / gays don’t care about the content of ideas so much as the status coding

  • The obligation in high status circles for performative authenticity and disinterest

  • Why so many sensitive young men identify with JD Vance

  • How Walt went from clowning on chuds to sympathizing with them

  • The world needs all types of people

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