Phill's Reviews > Against the Web

This is a short but solid read that functions as a response to the handful of 15-minutes-of-fame "thinkers" that were with us in the 2010s. Brooks is able to elucidate the lack of intellectualism of the self-proclaimed "Intelectual Dark Web" (IDW) in no less than 100 pages; this speaks to the lack of collective though of the IDW and conversely Brooks's talent as thinker himself. Although these dim-lit intellects (as of 2020) have lost all relevance on- and offline their tenebrous footprints are still with us leaving possibly millions of people with an ahistorical view and a fumbling understanding of the past.

Brooks ends his book with a compassionate call for a unified cosmopolitan response to the (not so new) New Right.