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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (James Burnham)

Published by Charles Haywood

Who rules? That’s what we all want to know. The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham’s still-influential 1941 book (the subject, for example, of recent pieces by Aaron Renn and Julius...

May 1, 2022
comments 6
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior

Fitzpatrick’s War (Theodore Judson)

Published by Charles Haywood

Fitzpatrick’s War, a prophetic 2004 work of fiction, which I read on a whim, has, somewhat to my surprise, stuck deeply in my mind. Not only does the book...

April 18, 2022
comments 5
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Christian Theology, Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Wars To Come

Podcast with Good Ol Boyz: Foundationalism with Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

My recent appearance with Maarek and Bog Beef of the Good Ol Boyz podcast. We cover patronage, elites, what young people should do with an eye to the future,...

April 13, 2022
comments 0
Announcement, Political Discussion & Analysis, Third-Party Participation

Throw Back Thursday: Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (Tom Shippey)

Published by Charles Haywood

[Of the Vikings, the real ones, not the fake ones with women warriors. This was first published July 10, 2019.] In these days where man is held to be...

April 7, 2022
comments 2
Book Reviews, British History, Charles, European History, Medieval History, Military History, Sex Roles, Social Behavior, War

The Fate of Empires (John Bagot Glubb)

Published by Charles Haywood

What Americans need now is a cheery book that assures us how our global power and hegemony are destined to last, if not forever, for a good deal longer....

March 31, 2022
comments 30
Book Reviews, British History, Charles, Longitudinal History

The Stakes: Trajectory of Tyranny (Michael Anton and Charles)

Published by Charles Haywood

The people, they demand yet more Michael Anton and Charles! This time, of Ukraine, Canada, and tyranny in general and as currently being applied. I am again pleased to...

March 5, 2022
comments 6
Announcement, Political Discussion & Analysis, Third-Party Participation

On the Marble Cliffs (Ernst Jünger)

Published by Charles Haywood

As the twenty-first century grinds on, with history returning in spades, Ernst Jünger, German warrior and philosopher, grows more relevant every day. This book, On the Marble Cliffs, I...

February 28, 2022
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Fiction, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Radical Right Authoritarianism, Wars To Come

Throw Back Thursday: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon (Crystal Zevon)

Published by Charles Haywood

[No politics today, but perhaps life lessons. This was first published February 23, 2019.] To the extent you have heard of Warren Zevon, it is probably because David Letterman...

February 24, 2022
comments 3
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Life Advice

“The Death of Late-Stage Leftism,” on The Pete Quinones Show

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my (second) discussion on The Pete Quinones Show! We discuss my recent article, Against Counsels of Defeat, Canadian truckers, regime fragility, and the inevitability of Left...

February 17, 2022
comments 5
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

“Building the Post-Liberal Future,” on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson! We discuss Foundationalism, Orthodoxy, and how our coming post-liberal future is going to be super awesome—if we play it...

February 15, 2022
comments 0
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

Against Counsels of Defeat

Published by Charles Haywood

To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. Therefore, we must know what the Left is. I use a consistent core definition—the Left is those who follow the...

February 11, 2022
comments 60
Analysis, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Popular, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors, Wars To Come

Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)

Published by Charles Haywood

How will our current regime fall? That’s what we all want to know. For those who have eyes to see, it is obvious the American regime is extremely fragile....

February 7, 2022
comments 32
Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament (Stephen De Young)

Published by Charles Haywood

Many, if not most, modern Christians are crypto-Marcionites. They resonate with the heresy that God, as revealed in the Old Testament, is different from God as revealed by Jesus...

January 26, 2022
comments 23
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Religion, War

Discussion with Charles on Third Way Radio

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion, in essence an interview of me, on Third Way Radio, a presentation of New Frontier! This features Haywood in high gear and taking no...

January 23, 2022
comments 10
Announcement, Third-Party Participation

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 18
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 9
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
Announcement, 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 14
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

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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (James Burnham)

Published by Charles Haywood

Who rules? That’s what we all want to know. The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham’s still-influential 1941 book (the subject, for example, of recent pieces by Aaron Renn and Julius...

May 1, 2022
comments 6
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior

Fitzpatrick’s War (Theodore Judson)

Published by Charles Haywood

Fitzpatrick’s War, a prophetic 2004 work of fiction, which I read on a whim, has, somewhat to my surprise, stuck deeply in my mind. Not only does the book...

April 18, 2022
comments 5
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Christian Theology, Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Wars To Come

Podcast with Good Ol Boyz: Foundationalism with Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

My recent appearance with Maarek and Bog Beef of the Good Ol Boyz podcast. We cover patronage, elites, what young people should do with an eye to the future,...

April 13, 2022
comments 0
Announcement, Political Discussion & Analysis, Third-Party Participation

Throw Back Thursday: Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (Tom Shippey)

Published by Charles Haywood

[Of the Vikings, the real ones, not the fake ones with women warriors. This was first published July 10, 2019.] In these days where man is held to be...

April 7, 2022
comments 2
Book Reviews, British History, Charles, European History, Medieval History, Military History, Sex Roles, Social Behavior, War

The Fate of Empires (John Bagot Glubb)

Published by Charles Haywood

What Americans need now is a cheery book that assures us how our global power and hegemony are destined to last, if not forever, for a good deal longer....

March 31, 2022
comments 30
Book Reviews, British History, Charles, Longitudinal History

The Stakes: Trajectory of Tyranny (Michael Anton and Charles)

Published by Charles Haywood

The people, they demand yet more Michael Anton and Charles! This time, of Ukraine, Canada, and tyranny in general and as currently being applied. I am again pleased to...

March 5, 2022
comments 6
Announcement, Political Discussion & Analysis, Third-Party Participation

On the Marble Cliffs (Ernst Jünger)

Published by Charles Haywood

As the twenty-first century grinds on, with history returning in spades, Ernst Jünger, German warrior and philosopher, grows more relevant every day. This book, On the Marble Cliffs, I...

February 28, 2022
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Fiction, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Radical Right Authoritarianism, Wars To Come

Throw Back Thursday: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon (Crystal Zevon)

Published by Charles Haywood

[No politics today, but perhaps life lessons. This was first published February 23, 2019.] To the extent you have heard of Warren Zevon, it is probably because David Letterman...

February 24, 2022
comments 3
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Life Advice

“The Death of Late-Stage Leftism,” on The Pete Quinones Show

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my (second) discussion on The Pete Quinones Show! We discuss my recent article, Against Counsels of Defeat, Canadian truckers, regime fragility, and the inevitability of Left...

February 17, 2022
comments 5
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

“Building the Post-Liberal Future,” on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson! We discuss Foundationalism, Orthodoxy, and how our coming post-liberal future is going to be super awesome—if we play it...

February 15, 2022
comments 0
Announcement, Charles, Third-Party Participation

Against Counsels of Defeat

Published by Charles Haywood

To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. Therefore, we must know what the Left is. I use a consistent core definition—the Left is those who follow the...

February 11, 2022
comments 60
Analysis, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Popular, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors, Wars To Come

Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)

Published by Charles Haywood

How will our current regime fall? That’s what we all want to know. For those who have eyes to see, it is obvious the American regime is extremely fragile....

February 7, 2022
comments 32
Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament (Stephen De Young)

Published by Charles Haywood

Many, if not most, modern Christians are crypto-Marcionites. They resonate with the heresy that God, as revealed in the Old Testament, is different from God as revealed by Jesus...

January 26, 2022
comments 23
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Religion, War

Discussion with Charles on Third Way Radio

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion, in essence an interview of me, on Third Way Radio, a presentation of New Frontier! This features Haywood in high gear and taking no...

January 23, 2022
comments 10
Announcement, Third-Party Participation

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 18
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 9
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
Announcement, 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 14
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 37
Book Reviews, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, 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 58
Analysis, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, 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
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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 44
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
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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
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