Read my ★★★ review of Jack Donovan's "The Way of Men," the infamous 2012 "meninist" manifesto turned somewhat into a playbook for white alt-righters even though it's not really that. What is it, then? And should you read it? Click through for the complicated and interesting answer! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5486070933
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Jason Pettus's review of The Way of Men
3/5: 2023 reads, #35. It was...let's see, 15 months ago now that I decided to become a completist reader of famed and widely admired alt-right writer and "Dark Enlightenment" philosopher Jack Donovan, not because I'm not an alt-right person myself (I repeat, I'm not an alt-right person myself, I want to state that unambiguously at the start of today's write-up), but because as a middle-aged straight white male there is of course some overlap here between my life and what Donovan talks about in his "masculinist" or "meninist" books of the 2010s or whatever you want to call them, far-right thought...

