Walt Right Perspectives

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I interview Dudley Newright, the editor and curator of the New Right Poast.

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