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:
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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