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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 27
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 14
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, 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 38
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 51
Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, European History, Political Economy, 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 80
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, 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 70
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 14
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 34
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 34
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Classical History, Religion, Social Behavior

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
comments 65
American History, Analysis, Charles, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Scott Yenor)

Published by Charles Haywood

You know what America needs? More mirrors for princes—the Renaissance genre of advice books directed at statesmen. On the Right, we have many books that identify, and complain about,...

March 10, 2021
comments 16
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Sex Roles, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors

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.

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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 27
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 14
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, 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 38
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 51
Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, European History, Political Economy, 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 80
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, 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 70
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 14
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 34
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 34
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Classical History, Religion, Social Behavior

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
comments 65
American History, Analysis, Charles, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Scott Yenor)

Published by Charles Haywood

You know what America needs? More mirrors for princes—the Renaissance genre of advice books directed at statesmen. On the Right, we have many books that identify, and complain about,...

March 10, 2021
comments 16
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Sex Roles, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors

Dark Emu (Bruce Pascoe)

Published by Charles Haywood

Americans do not understand Australia. At all. If Australia is brought up, they think of a few movie and television stars. They think of a vast red desert, perhaps,...

March 3, 2021
comments 28
Book Reviews, British History, Colonialism, Ethnography, Political Discussion & Analysis, Primitive Cultures, Social Behavior, The Orient

On the Brawndo Tyranny

Published by Charles Haywood

America was, for much of its existence, defined as a nation of laws, not men, in the famous phrase of John Adams. No more. Now men, but only some...

February 23, 2021
comments 46
Administrative State, American History, Analysis, Charles, Foundationalism, Law, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

Salazar (Tom Gallagher)

Published by Charles Haywood

What will be the political system of the future, in the lands that are still optimistically, or naively, viewed as containing one American nation? Certainly, the current system is...

February 15, 2021
comments 15
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Colonialism, European History, Foundationalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist (Niall Ferguson)

Published by Charles Haywood

Did you know that Henry Kissinger is still alive? I didn’t, until I looked it up. (He’s ninety-seven years old.) Is he forgotten? I suspect so, by most people....

February 8, 2021
comments 18
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster (Helen Andrews)

Published by Charles Haywood

What is a “baby boomer”? Technically, it is an American born between 1945 and 1964. More communicatively, a boomer is a member of the worst generation in American history,...

February 3, 2021
comments 29
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Social Behavior

Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel (Pyotr Wrangel)

Published by Charles Haywood

I recently wrote of the Finnish Civil War, where the Whites defeated the Reds. In the twentieth century, that pattern was unfortunately the exception, with the more common result...

January 29, 2021
comments 18
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Military History, War, Wars To Come

The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (Daisy Dunn)

Published by Charles Haywood

The Roman Empire gets a bad rap. This is particularly true of the members of its ruling class, who get the worse of the obvious comparison with Republican virtue,...

January 22, 2021
comments 3
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Classical History

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Mark Bray)

Published by Charles Haywood

More than twenty years ago, as a very young man, I traveled in Ukraine. In one place, the local authorities were excavating a mass grave from the 1930s. Hundreds...

January 18, 2021
comments 23
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Social Justice Warriors, War, Wars To Come

4th Generation Warfare Handbook (William S. Lind)

Published by Charles Haywood

2021 will be the twentieth anniversary of our endless, pointless war in Afghanistan, and 2023 the twentieth anniversary of our endless, pointless war in Iraq. This book, the ideas...

January 5, 2021
comments 19
Book Reviews, Charles, Military History, War

Retrotopia (John Michael Greer)

Published by Charles Haywood

What will the future look like? Not much like our stupid present, certainly, but complaining about the present is easy, while offering a coherent positive vision of the future...

January 1, 2021
comments 9
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Fiction, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Social Behavior, Technology, War, Wars To Come

The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)

Published by Charles Haywood

In their eternal quest to remake reality, a perennial target of the Left is the family: man, woman, and children, the bedrock of all human societies. The family, by...

December 28, 2020
comments 27
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Foundationalism, Left-Liberalism, Life Advice, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Post-Liberalism, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation (Peter Cozzens)

Published by Charles Haywood

I have always been aware of the great Shawnee Indian war chief Tecumseh. I grew up within walking distance of the site of his confederacy’s defeat, by William Henry...

December 11, 2020
comments 17
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Ethnography, Military History, Primitive Cultures, War

Light from the Christian East: An Introduction to the Orthodox Tradition (James R. Payton Jr.)

Published by Charles Haywood

I have always been keenly interested in comparative theology. However, as a recent adherent to Eastern Orthodoxy, I approach analysis, as opposed to knowledge, of Orthodox theology as presumptively...

December 3, 2020
comments 23
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Religion

On the Finnish Civil War

Published by Charles Haywood

You have likely never heard of the Finnish Civil War. A brief war, in some ways a simple war, it lasted only three months, from late January to late...

November 30, 2020
comments 16
Analysis, Charles, Civil War, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Military History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, War, Wars To Come

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Michael Shellenberger)

Published by Charles Haywood

Whenever, which is often, I see in the media that “experts say . . . ,” I immediately assume what follows is lies. The utter tone-deafness of using this...

November 12, 2020
comments 11
Apocalypse, Book Reviews, Charles, Political Economy, Religion, Science, Technology

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (Rod Dreher)

Published by Charles Haywood

A disease is going around. No, not the Wuhan Plague. This malady only affects the Right, and I name it Scrutonism. The symptoms of Scrutonism are a razor-sharp ability...

October 19, 2020
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