Dudley Newright is Curating Substack

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:

On Millennial Snot

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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