The Real "Woke Right"
Geoff Shullenberger's 2024 Compact essay arguing that Mailer's 'The White Negro' makes him 'both woke and redpilled avant la lettre.' An about-Mailer clipping.
Geoff Shullenberger. “The Real ‘Woke Right.’” Compact, 13 December 2024. https://compactmag.substack.com/p/the-real-woke-right
Subtitled “why Norman Mailer was both woke and redpilled avant la lettre,” the essay returns to The White Negro and Mailer’s posthumous cancellation, reading him as a prototype of present-day oppositional cultures on both left and right.