The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Reality-focused writings, often on history, politics, and human flourishing in the post-liberal future. I am here to give you back your future. The hour is late, and Moloch is within the gates. Foundationalism.
Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism (Stanley G. Payne)
A classic study of a bona fide fascist party, back a hundred years ago when fascism actually existed.
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The Timerman (Theodore Judson)
The latest from the fantastic Theodore Judson, an exploration of the future history of America. And of whether we should ever give charity to foreigners.
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Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth (Michael Anton)
A brilliant set of engaging essays.
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness (Michael Pollan)
A rambling, but interesting, set of ruminations on consciousness, showing the total failure of materialism.
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (Rick Atkinson)
How America was born in war.
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Red State Mars (Travis Corcoran)
A compelling, perhaps prescient, work about future American glory.
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch)
A famous, but somewhat strange, book from 1979. Of the decline of American society from the perspective of fifty years ago.
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry (Adrian Goldsworthy)
An excellent examination of ancient Persia, in its relations with the Roman Republic and Empire, with lessons for today's dumb war against Iran, that is, Persia.
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The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Carl Schmitt)
Carl Schmitt's detailed thoughts, after World War II, about the collapse of the pre-World War I order, and what might replace it--not that anything has yet, which is why the globe exists in disorder.
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End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers (Gord Magill)
An insightful, and infuriating, analysis of the forced decline of the profession of trucking, and what might be done about it.
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Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History (Alexander Rose)
A voluminous history of the Percy family, who ruled the North of England for five hundred years.
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Tom Wedderburn’s Life (Theodore Judson)
The first book from the estimable Theodore Judson, author of Fitzpatrick's War. An evocative study of a simple man's life, lived with honor in the face of adversity. Nearly impossible to find, but below is a link to an (authorized) PDF.Â
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Tim Wu)
A cogent, insightful examination of how concentrations of economic power, primarily tech power, erode the stability of our society while enriching an unaccountable parasite class.
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On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Bertrand de Jouvenel)
A classic, but often misunderstood, study of Power. Not a libertarian manifesto, nor any endorsement of so-called classical liberalism. And contrary to myth, not a rejection of the ability of populism to effect regime change. Rather, a total repudiation of democracy, and an endorsement of aristocratic rule governed by natural law.
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The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order (Philip Pilkington)
A clinical examination of the death of the Left, of "Enlightenment" liberalism, and of what comes next.
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Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families (Johann Kurtz)
Why and how you should leave a legacy to your family and your society, and against false charity and pernicious modern ideas about inheritance.
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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (Paul Kingsnorth)
A bold and insightful, but somewhat flawed, exposition of what is wrong with the modern world, and what to do about it.
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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Sebastian Junger)
An exploration of Near Death Experiences, including his own, from a man who has often explored the many aspects of human nature.
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Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World (Richard Middleton)
Of a man often misunderstood by Americans, whose life offers valuable lessons for the coming time of national renewal. Bonus content about insane Indian ethnonarcissism!
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The Essential Paul Gottfried: Essays from 1984–2024 (Paul Gottfried)
A new collection of crucial writings from the fantastic Paul Gottfried. And of the future of Left and Right.
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On the United Kingdom, and 1989 Eastern Europe as Harbinger
A complete analysis of the turbulent near future of the regime which, for a short while longer, rules the United Kingdom, through the lens of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
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Stoner (John Williams)
A semi-famous work of fiction about a failed life, with lessons about how you, too, can be a failure if you don't act like a man.
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (Judith M. Bennett)
A competent brief history of medieval English peasantry, unfortunately distorted and largely ruined by rancid feminist bias.
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Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail (Stephen Taylor)
An interesting study of the life of seamen in the age of sail, and of why Churchill was partially wrong about "rum, sodomy, and the lash."
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John Chrysostom on the Roman Empire: A Study on the Political Thought of the Early Church (Constantine Bozinis)
Of empire, democracy, and mixed government, through the prism of one of the greatest Fathers of the Church.
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Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)
An exhaustive study of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, written by my father.
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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Jim Rasenberger)
Of Sam Colt, who made all men equal, yet found little happiness, it seems, in doing so.
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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips)
A competent history of the Kurdish warlord Saladin, and his battles against Christians in the Holy Land. And of modern distorted and false views of his works.
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)
Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come.
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A classic work about religion, law, and governance in pre-history, and how those structures formed the Greece and Rome we know.
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Against Gross Domestic Product
Why the golden calf of Gross Domestic Product should be rejected as a measure of America's flourishing.
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Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief (Ronald Hutton)
The second volume in Ronald Hutton's trilogy biography of Oliver Cromwell. And of how England could sure use a new Cromwell as of this moment.
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The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Carl Schmitt)
Of the life and death of the Leviathan state of Thomas Hobbes, and much else besides, as always with Carl Schmitt, including how the end of that state led to the administrative/managerial state and the triumph of destructive, soulless technique.
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The Martian General's Daughter (Theodore Judson)
Of empires and their fall, and whether America can or should remain an empire, or become just a nation again.
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South (Peter Cozzens)
Of the Red Stick War of 1813, and of the American Indian, past and future.
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On Private Justice
A complete analysis of private justice, both in the abstract and in the circumstances in which Americans today find ourselves.
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Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia (John P. Burgess)
An examination of Russian Orthodoxy in modern Russia, and of what that implies for the future of Russia.
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On the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
A detailed analysis of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the only armed revolt against Soviet Communism, and one nearly successful, as well as both wholly-spontaneous and unplanned. And, no surprise, of what lessons can be found in it for us in 2024 America.
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On the Left as Scorpion: Election and Post-Election Predictions
A complete predictive analysis of the coming days and months. This was written in June, but only published now, and has held up 100% so far!
The written version of this review can be found at Man's World magazine, here (https://mansworldmag.online/on-the-left-as-scorpion/). You should check out Man's World, in whose pages I have appeared several times, if you have not already done so. It is highly worthwhile.
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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Sean McMeekin)
The latest book by the excellent Sean McMeekin--a survey of Communist theory and thought, with surprising-to-some conclusions about the rebirth of Communism in the present day.
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