Book Review: How to Be Right by Greg Gutfeld

 

Greg Gutfeld’s How to Be Right is not a polite guide to winning debates, it’s a punch in the face to the smug, hypocritical Left. Gutfeld understands something most conservative writers don’t: you don’t win by begging for civility. You win by being funnier, sharper, and far more ruthless than your opponent. This book is a masterclass in rhetorical warfare. Gutfeld takes the Left’s favourite weapons, moral superiority, victimhood, and fake compassion and turns them into punchlines. He exposes the hollowness of progressive posturing and shows why the Right needs to stop being defensive and start going on the attack. What makes this book powerful is its tone. It’s irreverent, biting, and refuses to give an inch. Gutfeld knows the Left can’t handle mockery, because their entire ideology collapses under laughter. He gives readers permission to ditch the dreary fact-check debates and instead ridicule the absurdity of woke culture, identity politics, and Marxist virtue-signalling. But How to Be Right isn’t just comedy, it’s strategy. Gutfeld lays out how conservatives can actually become culturally relevant again: by being bold, unapologetic, and entertaining. The Right loses when it plays boring hall monitor; it wins when it becomes the rebellious, anti-establishment force that young people actually want to listen to. The Left pretends to be edgy rebels, but they’re the establishment now. Gutfeld understands this and arms his readers with the tools to flip the script. It’s not about being “reasonable”; it’s about being right and winning the culture war with mockery, truth, and moral clarity. For anyone sick of seeing conservatives lose gracefully while progressives destroy Western civilisation, this book is essential. Gutfeld gives you permission to be what the Left fears most: confident, funny, and mercilessly right. Verdict: A hilarious, razor-sharp manual for rhetorically humiliating the Left and a blueprint for a new kind of conservative fighter. Read it, absorb it, and then go out and destroy their arguments with a smirk.