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On Battlefield V

Published by Charles

Last year, the giant gaming company Electronic Arts released the latest version of an extremely popular military game, Battlefield V. Each release in the series takes place in a...

January 16, 2019
comments 6
Analysis, Business & Money, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Sex Roles, Social Justice Warriors

The Language of the Third Reich (Victor Klemperer)

Published by Charles

Victor Klemperer is famous today for his diaries covering the Nazi era in Germany. But those were published in 1995, thirty-five years after his death. The only book he...

January 11, 2019
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Social Behavior, Totalitarian Socialism

48 Hours (William Fortschen)

Published by Charles

I’ve read all of William Fortschen’s books.  They’re among the best of apocalypse fiction, a genre dominated by potboilers, so naturally, I preordered this book.  My big question was...

January 10, 2019
comments 9
Apocalypse, Book Reviews, Charles, Fiction

West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express (Jim DeFelice)

Published by Charles

My great-grandfather’s uncle, William Pridham, was a rider for the Pony Express.  This is not a family legend, as are many Pony Express stories; he is listed in the...

January 9, 2019
comments 0
American History, Book Reviews, Charles

Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)

Published by Charles

I continue to be fascinated by the Bolshevik Revolution, because in its success there are many lessons.  Unbiased history and biography of the Bolsheviks is a relatively recent phenomenon;...

December 29, 2018
comments 8
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis

The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Oren Cass)

Published by Charles

I have often complained that human flourishing cannot consist of increases in GDP that permit us all to buy more cheap Chinese crap every year.  Oren Cass has arrived...

December 24, 2018
comments 2
Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Andrew Willard Jones)

Published by Charles

Like Diogenes searching for an honest man, I spend my days searching for a useful political program.  Necessarily rejecting all Left philosophies as anti-human and anti-reality, I go searching...

December 22, 2018
comments 3
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, European History, Great Fragmentation, Medieval History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Reaction, Religion

Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name (Leah Libresco)

Published by Charles

Creating a social movement is hard.  Creating a social movement of conservatives is even harder, since for the most part progressives derive much of life’s meaning from social action,...

December 14, 2018
comments 0
Book Reviews, Charles, Religion, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors, Wars To Come

My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company (Cal Turner)

Published by Charles

In 2002, the law firm for which I worked was involved in the Dollar General debacle, helping clean up the mess after the company restated financial statements due to...

December 8, 2018
comments 0
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (Tyler Cowen)

Published by Charles

Finally, the age of sophisters and calculators has fully arrived, and its herald is Tyler Cowen.  He, economist and blogger, is here to tell us the purpose of life. ...

December 7, 2018
comments 10
Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Reaction, Social Behavior

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

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On Battlefield V

Published by Charles

Last year, the giant gaming company Electronic Arts released the latest version of an extremely popular military game, Battlefield V. Each release in the series takes place in a...

January 16, 2019
comments 6
Analysis, Business & Money, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Sex Roles, Social Justice Warriors

The Language of the Third Reich (Victor Klemperer)

Published by Charles

Victor Klemperer is famous today for his diaries covering the Nazi era in Germany. But those were published in 1995, thirty-five years after his death. The only book he...

January 11, 2019
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Social Behavior, Totalitarian Socialism

48 Hours (William Fortschen)

Published by Charles

I’ve read all of William Fortschen’s books.  They’re among the best of apocalypse fiction, a genre dominated by potboilers, so naturally, I preordered this book.  My big question was...

January 10, 2019
comments 9
Apocalypse, Book Reviews, Charles, Fiction

West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express (Jim DeFelice)

Published by Charles

My great-grandfather’s uncle, William Pridham, was a rider for the Pony Express.  This is not a family legend, as are many Pony Express stories; he is listed in the...

January 9, 2019
comments 0
American History, Book Reviews, Charles

Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)

Published by Charles

I continue to be fascinated by the Bolshevik Revolution, because in its success there are many lessons.  Unbiased history and biography of the Bolsheviks is a relatively recent phenomenon;...

December 29, 2018
comments 8
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis

The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Oren Cass)

Published by Charles

I have often complained that human flourishing cannot consist of increases in GDP that permit us all to buy more cheap Chinese crap every year.  Oren Cass has arrived...

December 24, 2018
comments 2
Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Andrew Willard Jones)

Published by Charles

Like Diogenes searching for an honest man, I spend my days searching for a useful political program.  Necessarily rejecting all Left philosophies as anti-human and anti-reality, I go searching...

December 22, 2018
comments 3
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, European History, Great Fragmentation, Medieval History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Reaction, Religion

Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name (Leah Libresco)

Published by Charles

Creating a social movement is hard.  Creating a social movement of conservatives is even harder, since for the most part progressives derive much of life’s meaning from social action,...

December 14, 2018
comments 0
Book Reviews, Charles, Religion, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors, Wars To Come

My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company (Cal Turner)

Published by Charles

In 2002, the law firm for which I worked was involved in the Dollar General debacle, helping clean up the mess after the company restated financial statements due to...

December 8, 2018
comments 0
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (Tyler Cowen)

Published by Charles

Finally, the age of sophisters and calculators has fully arrived, and its herald is Tyler Cowen.  He, economist and blogger, is here to tell us the purpose of life. ...

December 7, 2018
comments 10
Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Reaction, Social Behavior

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On Battlefield VLast year, the giant gaming company Electronic Arts released the latest version of an...January 16, 2019

The Language of the Third Reich (Victor Klemperer)Victor Klemperer is famous today for his diaries covering the Nazi era in Germany....January 11, 2019

48 Hours (William Fortschen)I’ve read all of William Fortschen’s books.  They’re among the best of apocalypse fiction,...January 10, 2019

West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express (Jim DeFelice)My great-grandfather’s uncle, William Pridham, was a rider for the Pony Express.  This is...January 9, 2019

Trotsky: A Biography (Robert Service)I continue to be fascinated by the Bolshevik Revolution, because in its success there...December 29, 2018

The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (Oren Cass)I have often complained that human flourishing cannot consist of increases in GDP that...December 24, 2018

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Andrew Willard Jones)Like Diogenes searching for an honest man, I spend my days searching for a...December 22, 2018

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My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company (Cal Turner)In 2002, the law firm for which I worked was involved in the Dollar...December 8, 2018

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Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Mark Sedgwick)This book is an academic study of an obscure movement, Traditionalism.  The name has...November 30, 2018

Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 (Wolfgang Schivelbusch)This book, a brief work of cultural history, outlines four parallel aspects of three...November 26, 2018

The Republican Workers Party: How the Trump Victory Drove Everyone Crazy, and Why It Was Just What We Needed (F. H. Buckley)Along with left-wing books decrying the supposed Trump-driven decline of democracy, I have been...November 23, 2018

Gun Control in Nazi Occupied-France: Tyranny and Resistance (Stephen P. Halbrook)This is an academic monograph, rather than a work of propaganda or political inspiration....November 21, 2018

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Tim Wu)As the ideological tectonic plates shift in America, many apparently settled matters have become...November 18, 2018

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Laura Spinney)Since I am an apocalypse monger, but a practical one, I do not worry...November 15, 2018

The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt (Gopal Balakrishnan)Carl Schmitt, preeminent antiliberal, is that rare thing, the modern political philosopher relevant long...November 12, 2018

On Conservative Bubbles and the Supreme CourtIt has long been an article of faith on the Right, including for me,...November 6, 2018

On the Subjective Mental State of LiberalsIn 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel famously asked “What Is it Like to be a...November 4, 2018

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Christopher R. Browning)It seems to me that we in the West are like men in a...November 2, 2018

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Chrystia Freeland)From the cover, I expected this book to be a lightweight documentary version of...October 30, 2018

Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution (Tucker Carlson)Ship of Fools extends the recent run of books that attack the American ruling...October 28, 2018

The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr (Leanda de Lisle)As with Nicholas II, the last ruling Romanov, how we view Charles I is...October 17, 2018

The Forest Passage (Ernst Jünger)Ernst Jünger was one of the more fascinating men of the twentieth century.  Remembered...October 13, 2018

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us. . . . (Michael Pollan)I have led a boring life, at least as measured by the topics covered...October 12, 2018

Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy (Kurt Schlichter)Militant Normals is an enjoyable read, a rollicking journey with the acid tongue of...October 7, 2018

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (Theodore Dalrymple)When I am dictator, which hopefully will be any day now, I am going...September 29, 2018

The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando (Paul Kix)This is the story of a man—Robert de La Rouchefoucauld, scion of one of...September 27, 2018

How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt)This may be the worst well-written book I have ever read.  That is, most...September 25, 2018

The Russian Revolution: A New History (Sean McMeekin)I am currently very focused on the ascent to power of Communism in Russia,...September 23, 2018

On Preemptive Apologies by ConservativesA disability afflicts nearly all conservative arguments today.  Rather than being a robust picture...September 19, 2018

On Revolution (Hannah Arendt)This is a book that rewards patience.  The problem is, I am not a...September 13, 2018

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