SKEWED VISION OF DEMOCRACY*

THE SMALLEST MINORITY: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
by Kevin D. Williamson
Gateway Editions, Washington DC
Hardcover: 256 pages
Price: AUD$53.99

Reviewed by David James

Kevin D. Williamson’s book, The Smallest Minority, is an entirely reasonable critique of democracy’s shortcomings that just as entirely misses the point.

He criticises the mob rule element in democracies, but there is no sense in which, in reality, democracies reflect the will of the people. An…

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