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Anabasis; Or, The March Up-Country (Xenophon)

Published by Charles Haywood

Are you often disheartened by the world around us? Do you see almost nothing but enervation and cowardice displayed in public life? Of course you are, and you do,...

January 19, 2022
comments 15
Book Reviews, Charles, Classical History, Military History, Social Behavior, War

Young Men and Fire (Norman Maclean)

Published by Charles Haywood

Not long ago, as I wrote, I was listening to a playlist on Spotify (I listen to music when I write, but never when I read). It was Spotify’s...

January 11, 2022
comments 8
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Science, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

“Sovereign is he who decides the exception.” Among serious students of political philosophy, at least on the Right, these may be the most famous words of the twentieth century....

December 15, 2021
comments 15
Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, European History, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

Announcement: Discussion between Navarra Confidencial and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Navarra Confidencial, a Spanish news and opinion site! For better or worse, I speak no Spanish, so it is all in English. We...

December 12, 2021
comments 8
Third-Party Participation

America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928 (Jeremy Beer)

Published by Charles Haywood

A hundred years ago, Booth Tarkington was probably the most famous and successful author in America. But today, even in Indiana, his birthplace and the state with which he...

December 8, 2021
comments 20
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Social Behavior

Human, Forever (James Poulos)

Published by Charles Haywood

Digital communications technology is yet mostly a formless thing, still being born, upon which we moderns imprint our fears and our hopes. Some dreamers see it as an unalloyed...

November 30, 2021
comments 20
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Religion, Science, Social Behavior, Technology, Wars To Come

A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right (Matthew Rose)

Published by Charles Haywood

An review by me of this book has been published in the excellent journal IM-1776. The first paragraph, and a link to the entire review, and the journal itself,...

November 26, 2021
comments 13
Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Third-Party Participation, Wars To Come

Announcement: Discussion between Tommy Salmons (Year Zero) and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Tommy Salmons on his Year Zero podcast! We have a freewheeling and wide-ranging discussion, containing much abuse of our current government, talk about...

November 23, 2021
comments 0
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam (Bat Ye’or)

Published by Charles Haywood

For twenty years, our rulers have propagandized us with two contradictory claims. First, that the West is locked in an existential conflict with Islam, justifying any spending, any killing,...

November 18, 2021
comments 26
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Ethnography, Islam & The Islamic World, Longitudinal History, Religion, The Orient

Announcement: Discussion between Prof. Edward Dutton (aka The Jolly Heretic) and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Professor Edward Dutton, aka The Jolly Heretic! Professor Dutton is an expert on evolutionary biology and related matters, which we mention in the...

November 9, 2021
comments 3
Announcement, Third-Party Participation

Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II (Sean McMeekin)

Published by Charles Haywood

We are not a serious society. Our ruling class are men of no substance, lacking all knowledge and incapable of competent action on any front. The masses, while they...

November 4, 2021
comments 34
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Military History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, War

Announcement: Podcast Discussion between Peter R. Quiñones and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available across all platforms is my discussion with Peter R. Quiñones, host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. We talk about the fracture of America, putting...

November 3, 2021
comments 18
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

Industrial Society and Its Future (Theodore John Kaczynski)

Published by Charles Haywood

What role should technology—the complex of machines and computers that undergirds our world—play in our future? This is a crucial question, and among thinking people today there exists a...

October 22, 2021
comments 35
Book Reviews, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Science, Social Behavior, Technology

The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World (Nathan Gorenstein)

Published by Charles Haywood

Some men have minds that are simply not like those of others, but far better, on a different plane entirely. Such men are vanishingly rare, and appear to be...

October 19, 2021
comments 18
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Guns, Practical Skills, Science, Technology

On the Future Ascent of a Caesar

Published by Charles Haywood

I recently wrote about what might happen after an American Caesar, a radical reconstructor of our polity, arose. And in these days of American humiliation and accelerating decay, a...

October 12, 2021
comments 55
Analysis, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

Dictatorship: From the Origin of the Modern Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

Dictatorship, in the form of Caesarism, is in the American air. I have recently written on what, in practical terms, an American Caesar would do; I will soon tell...

October 2, 2021
comments 14
Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, Civil War, Communism, European History, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Radical Right Authoritarianism, Wars To Come

Announcement: Podcast Discussion between Alex Kaschuta and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Are you looking for doomer optimism? Look no further. Now available across all platforms is my discussion with Alex Kaschuta, host of The Subversive Podcast. We talk about regime...

September 23, 2021
comment 1
Announcement

What to Do When Caesar Comes

Published by Charles Haywood

An article by me, “What to Do When Caesar Comes,” has been published in the new magazine Asylum, along with pieces from others, including Lord Conrad Black and Bronze...

September 10, 2021
comments 37
Announcement, Charles, Civil War, Classical History, Political Discussion & Analysis, War, Wars To Come

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (Christopher Lasch)

Published by Charles Haywood

Christopher Lasch died before this, his last book, was published, twenty-six years ago. Lasch was a man out of time, a refugee leftist who nonetheless refused to embrace what...

September 7, 2021
comments 16
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior

Political Romanticism (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

To my excitement, Carl Schmitt is coming back into fashion, or at least into notice. Last week, for example, an excellent piece by the Swedish renegade leftist Malcolm Kyeyune...

August 29, 2021
comments 18
Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis

The Bear: History of a Fallen King (Michel Pastoureau)

Published by Charles Haywood

Symbology is a key element of any successful modern political movement. Animals are rarely modern political symbols; certainly modern mass ideologies, from Communism to National Socialism, have eschewed such...

August 20, 2021
comments 42
Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Foundationalism, Medieval History, Social Behavior

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (James Burnham)

Published by Charles Haywood

The American Right, like all outsider political movements, has long been susceptible to Gnosticism. This usually manifests as the belief that a small group of wise initiates can see...

August 14, 2021
comments 20
Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Political Discussion & Analysis

The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War (Michael Seidman)

Published by Charles Haywood

My goal is winning the future, and to win, we must utterly and permanently defeat the Left. In this effort, we can learn many lessons from Spain in the...

August 1, 2021
comments 53
Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, European History, Political Economy, Popular, Post-Liberalism, War, Wars To Come

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)

Published by Charles Haywood

I have long admired Hernán Cortes, conqueror of the Aztecs. He may not have gotten to Heaven, though who can say, but he exemplified the spirit of the West,...

July 19, 2021
comments 43
Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Latin American History, Primitive Cultures, War

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

T. E. Lawrence

As with most of my book reviews, I am not actually reviewing this book, at least in the traditional sense. Rather, I am delivering my own thoughts. If you don’t like that, well, you’re in the wrong place.

Charles Haywood

I’m not in the apologies business. I’m in the winning business.

Charles Haywood

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Anabasis; Or, The March Up-Country (Xenophon)

Published by Charles Haywood

Are you often disheartened by the world around us? Do you see almost nothing but enervation and cowardice displayed in public life? Of course you are, and you do,...

January 19, 2022
comments 15
Book Reviews, Charles, Classical History, Military History, Social Behavior, War

Young Men and Fire (Norman Maclean)

Published by Charles Haywood

Not long ago, as I wrote, I was listening to a playlist on Spotify (I listen to music when I write, but never when I read). It was Spotify’s...

January 11, 2022
comments 8
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Science, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

“Sovereign is he who decides the exception.” Among serious students of political philosophy, at least on the Right, these may be the most famous words of the twentieth century....

December 15, 2021
comments 15
Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, European History, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

Announcement: Discussion between Navarra Confidencial and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Navarra Confidencial, a Spanish news and opinion site! For better or worse, I speak no Spanish, so it is all in English. We...

December 12, 2021
comments 8
Third-Party Participation

America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928 (Jeremy Beer)

Published by Charles Haywood

A hundred years ago, Booth Tarkington was probably the most famous and successful author in America. But today, even in Indiana, his birthplace and the state with which he...

December 8, 2021
comments 20
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Social Behavior

Human, Forever (James Poulos)

Published by Charles Haywood

Digital communications technology is yet mostly a formless thing, still being born, upon which we moderns imprint our fears and our hopes. Some dreamers see it as an unalloyed...

November 30, 2021
comments 20
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Religion, Science, Social Behavior, Technology, Wars To Come

A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right (Matthew Rose)

Published by Charles Haywood

An review by me of this book has been published in the excellent journal IM-1776. The first paragraph, and a link to the entire review, and the journal itself,...

November 26, 2021
comments 13
Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Third-Party Participation, Wars To Come

Announcement: Discussion between Tommy Salmons (Year Zero) and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Tommy Salmons on his Year Zero podcast! We have a freewheeling and wide-ranging discussion, containing much abuse of our current government, talk about...

November 23, 2021
comments 0
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam (Bat Ye’or)

Published by Charles Haywood

For twenty years, our rulers have propagandized us with two contradictory claims. First, that the West is locked in an existential conflict with Islam, justifying any spending, any killing,...

November 18, 2021
comments 26
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Ethnography, Islam & The Islamic World, Longitudinal History, Religion, The Orient

Announcement: Discussion between Prof. Edward Dutton (aka The Jolly Heretic) and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Professor Edward Dutton, aka The Jolly Heretic! Professor Dutton is an expert on evolutionary biology and related matters, which we mention in the...

November 9, 2021
comments 3
Announcement, Third-Party Participation

Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II (Sean McMeekin)

Published by Charles Haywood

We are not a serious society. Our ruling class are men of no substance, lacking all knowledge and incapable of competent action on any front. The masses, while they...

November 4, 2021
comments 34
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Military History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, War

Announcement: Podcast Discussion between Peter R. Quiñones and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available across all platforms is my discussion with Peter R. Quiñones, host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. We talk about the fracture of America, putting...

November 3, 2021
comments 18
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

Industrial Society and Its Future (Theodore John Kaczynski)

Published by Charles Haywood

What role should technology—the complex of machines and computers that undergirds our world—play in our future? This is a crucial question, and among thinking people today there exists a...

October 22, 2021
comments 35
Book Reviews, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Science, Social Behavior, Technology

The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World (Nathan Gorenstein)

Published by Charles Haywood

Some men have minds that are simply not like those of others, but far better, on a different plane entirely. Such men are vanishingly rare, and appear to be...

October 19, 2021
comments 18
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Guns, Practical Skills, Science, Technology

On the Future Ascent of a Caesar

Published by Charles Haywood

I recently wrote about what might happen after an American Caesar, a radical reconstructor of our polity, arose. And in these days of American humiliation and accelerating decay, a...

October 12, 2021
comments 55
Analysis, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

Dictatorship: From the Origin of the Modern Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

Dictatorship, in the form of Caesarism, is in the American air. I have recently written on what, in practical terms, an American Caesar would do; I will soon tell...

October 2, 2021
comments 14
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Announcement: Podcast Discussion between Alex Kaschuta and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Are you looking for doomer optimism? Look no further. Now available across all platforms is my discussion with Alex Kaschuta, host of The Subversive Podcast. We talk about regime...

September 23, 2021
comment 1
Announcement

What to Do When Caesar Comes

Published by Charles Haywood

An article by me, “What to Do When Caesar Comes,” has been published in the new magazine Asylum, along with pieces from others, including Lord Conrad Black and Bronze...

September 10, 2021
comments 37
Announcement, Charles, Civil War, Classical History, Political Discussion & Analysis, War, Wars To Come

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (Christopher Lasch)

Published by Charles Haywood

Christopher Lasch died before this, his last book, was published, twenty-six years ago. Lasch was a man out of time, a refugee leftist who nonetheless refused to embrace what...

September 7, 2021
comments 16
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior

Political Romanticism (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

To my excitement, Carl Schmitt is coming back into fashion, or at least into notice. Last week, for example, an excellent piece by the Swedish renegade leftist Malcolm Kyeyune...

August 29, 2021
comments 18
Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis

The Bear: History of a Fallen King (Michel Pastoureau)

Published by Charles Haywood

Symbology is a key element of any successful modern political movement. Animals are rarely modern political symbols; certainly modern mass ideologies, from Communism to National Socialism, have eschewed such...

August 20, 2021
comments 42
Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Foundationalism, Medieval History, Social Behavior

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom (James Burnham)

Published by Charles Haywood

The American Right, like all outsider political movements, has long been susceptible to Gnosticism. This usually manifests as the belief that a small group of wise initiates can see...

August 14, 2021
comments 20
Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Political Discussion & Analysis

The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War (Michael Seidman)

Published by Charles Haywood

My goal is winning the future, and to win, we must utterly and permanently defeat the Left. In this effort, we can learn many lessons from Spain in the...

August 1, 2021
comments 53
Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, European History, Political Economy, Popular, Post-Liberalism, War, Wars To Come

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)

Published by Charles Haywood

I have long admired Hernán Cortes, conqueror of the Aztecs. He may not have gotten to Heaven, though who can say, but he exemplified the spirit of the West,...

July 19, 2021
comments 43
Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Latin American History, Primitive Cultures, War

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon)

Published by Charles Haywood

For eighteen months, I have been infinitely puzzled that most responses to the Wuhan Plague have been irrational. Lack of rationality dominates the discourse and actions of the majority,...

July 15, 2021
comments 85
Book Reviews, Charles, Social Behavior, Technology

Freedom (Sebastian Junger)

Published by Charles Haywood

This slim book, a companion of sorts to Sebastian Junger’s earlier book Tribe, is about philosophy derived from life. Junger has made a career out of undergoing risks and...

July 5, 2021
comments 17
Book Reviews, Charles, Life Advice, Social Behavior

Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Russell Duncan)

Published by Charles Haywood

I suspect that very few people under forty know who Robert Gould Shaw was. Those older may remember the 1989 film Glory, which told his story. That movie could...

June 29, 2021
comments 27
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Military History, Social Behavior, War

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

Ah, Carl Schmitt, Carl Schmitt! No man like him exists today. Political philosophy in our time is, and for many decades past has been, largely the domain of intellectual...

June 22, 2021
comments 8
Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, European History, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past

Published by Charles Haywood

I am here to give you back your future. Like Yeats’s golden bird, I will tell you of what is past, and passing, and to come. Here I offer...

June 17, 2021
comments 78
Analysis, Foundationalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

Announcement: SECOND Podcast Discussion between Michael Anton and Charles Haywood

Published by Charles Haywood

The people, they demand Michael Anton and The Worthy House! I am again pleased to announce that The Claremont Institute, in the form of The American Mind, a publication...

June 14, 2021
comments 16
American History, Announcement, Charles, Colloquies, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Third-Party Participation

What to Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide (Robert Conquest)

Published by Charles Haywood

One fine day in April, 1945, a cousin of mine was shot by the Russians. His name was Félix Straszer. His crime? None, of course. In February, Stalin had...

June 10, 2021
comments 27
American History, Charles, Communism, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (Brian Alexander)

Published by Charles Haywood

Private equity has made me rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Yet private equity can be, as this book shows, a tool of the devil, a corrosive and destructive...

May 25, 2021
comments 33
American History, Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Economics, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Social Behavior

Announcement: Video Discussion between Henok Elias and Charles Haywood

Published by Charles Haywood

I am pleased to announce a video podcast between Henok Elias, a fascinating man, and myself. We touch on many interesting matters, from ancient (and modern) Ethiopia to the...

May 23, 2021
comments 4
Announcement, Charles, Classical History, Religion, Third-Party Participation

Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World (Alexander Rose)

Published by Charles Haywood

Nothing is accomplished by our society today. That little which seems like accomplishment is merely the sating of useless consumerist desires and the serving up of mental frippery and...

May 10, 2021
comments 11
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Science, Social Behavior, Technology

Announcement: Podcast Discussion between Michael Anton and Charles Haywood

Published by Charles Haywood

I am pleased to announce that The Claremont Institute, in the form of The American Mind, a publication of the Institute, has published a Special Edition of its regular...

May 3, 2021
comments 13
American History, Announcement, Charles, Colloquies, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Third-Party Participation

We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

Published by Charles Haywood

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, written in 1921, is the ur-dystopia of all modern dystopias. True, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984, both of which this book influenced,...

April 23, 2021
comments 35
Book Reviews, Charles, Fiction, Political Discussion & Analysis, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth (Peter Turchin)

Published by Charles Haywood

Peter Turchin leads a recent academic movement to quantify and mathematize human history. That is, instead of analyzing history thematically, or engaging in broad analysis of happenings and trends,...

April 20, 2021
comments 3
Book Reviews, Charles, Longitudinal History, Primitive Cultures, Social Behavior, War

The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming (Jean-Martin Fortier)

Published by Charles Haywood

My barn has a split personality. On one side, you may not be surprised to learn, dusty in the gloom, carefully organized and stacked, are defensive implements of war,...

April 12, 2021
comments 36
Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Gardening & Farming, Life Advice, Political Economy, Practical Skills

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (René Girard)

Published by Charles Haywood

It has long been fashionable to regard Christianity as myth, no different in substance than many other ancient myths. Sometimes this is done to glibly dismiss Christ’s message; sometimes...

March 30, 2021
comments 37
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On the January 2021 Electoral Justice Protest

Published by Charles Haywood

On January 6, several thousand men and women made their voices heard—first around, and then some in, the United States Capitol. This event has received vast attention and been...

March 23, 2021
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