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Escaping the Russian Bear: An Estonian Girl’s Memoir of Loss and Survival During World War II (Kristina von Rosenvinge)

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I am fond of pointing out that the safety and security we think we enjoy is, historically speaking, anomalous and ephemeral. This memoir, by the late Kristina von Rosenvinge,...

June 15, 2019
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Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Social Behavior, Totalitarian Socialism, War

Hired: Undercover in Low-Wage Britain (James Bloodworth)

Published by Charles

James Bloodworth, an English sometime Trotskyite, has written a book which combines the television series Undercover Boss and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. He took...

June 13, 2019
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Book Reviews, British History, Business & Money, Charles, Economics, Great Fragmentation, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Announcement: Podcasts & Typeset PDFs

Published by Charles

I have often received complaints, or let’s call it feedback, that people would like to read more of The Worthy House, but really, who can be expected to have...

June 12, 2019
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Roman Warfare (Adrian Goldsworthy)

Published by Charles

Adrian Goldsworthy is primarily known for lengthy, but highly readable, volumes on Roman history, such as Augustus and The Punic Wars. He has two sidelines, in massive reference works...

June 8, 2019
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Book Reviews, Charles, Classical History, Military History, War

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Brian A. Catlos)

Published by Charles

I read this book, about the history of Spain under Muslim rule, hoping it would be less biased than Darío Fernández-Morera’s The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, which I...

May 24, 2019
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Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Islam & The Islamic World, Medieval History, The Orient

A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)

Published by Charles

Hans-Hermann Hoppe!, they cried. Hans-Hermann Hoppe! They told me that if I read his books, it would change my life. This is not the first time I have heard...

May 20, 2019
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Economics, Great Divergence, Longitudinal History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Primitive Cultures

Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts (Alexander Langlands)

Published by Charles

Man’s search for meaning is, in these days of alienation and anomie, always a topic that can generate interest. Meaning at its most concrete is tied to the things...

May 17, 2019
comments 5
Book Reviews, Charles, Gardening & Farming, Political Economy, Practical Skills, Social Behavior

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

Published by Charles

Sapiens is a book of history, but its main thrust is philosophical. It explores, or tries to explore, the conundrum that if man is built to seek meaning, but...

May 15, 2019
comments 10
Book Reviews, Charles, Great Divergence, Longitudinal History, Primitive Cultures, Social Behavior

Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life (Daymond John)

Published by Charles

People often ask me, as I stride the halls of power in my custom Zegna suits wove with thread of gold, how I became so rich and successful. Like...

April 30, 2019
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Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles

Richard Nixon: The Life (John Farrell)

Published by Charles

Richard Nixon’s name is often invoked, but what we hear, for the most part, is not history. Rather it is incantation, much like watching a medieval morality play, where...

April 26, 2019
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American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis

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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Escaping the Russian Bear: An Estonian Girl’s Memoir of Loss and Survival During World War II (Kristina von Rosenvinge)

Published by Charles

I am fond of pointing out that the safety and security we think we enjoy is, historically speaking, anomalous and ephemeral. This memoir, by the late Kristina von Rosenvinge,...

June 15, 2019
comments 0
Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Social Behavior, Totalitarian Socialism, War

Hired: Undercover in Low-Wage Britain (James Bloodworth)

Published by Charles

James Bloodworth, an English sometime Trotskyite, has written a book which combines the television series Undercover Boss and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. He took...

June 13, 2019
comment 1
Book Reviews, British History, Business & Money, Charles, Economics, Great Fragmentation, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Announcement: Podcasts & Typeset PDFs

Published by Charles

I have often received complaints, or let’s call it feedback, that people would like to read more of The Worthy House, but really, who can be expected to have...

June 12, 2019
comments 10
Charles

Roman Warfare (Adrian Goldsworthy)

Published by Charles

Adrian Goldsworthy is primarily known for lengthy, but highly readable, volumes on Roman history, such as Augustus and The Punic Wars. He has two sidelines, in massive reference works...

June 8, 2019
comments 0
Book Reviews, Charles, Classical History, Military History, War

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Brian A. Catlos)

Published by Charles

I read this book, about the history of Spain under Muslim rule, hoping it would be less biased than Darío Fernández-Morera’s The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, which I...

May 24, 2019
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Islam & The Islamic World, Medieval History, The Orient

A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)

Published by Charles

Hans-Hermann Hoppe!, they cried. Hans-Hermann Hoppe! They told me that if I read his books, it would change my life. This is not the first time I have heard...

May 20, 2019
comments 2
Book Reviews, Charles, Economics, Great Divergence, Longitudinal History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Primitive Cultures

Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts (Alexander Langlands)

Published by Charles

Man’s search for meaning is, in these days of alienation and anomie, always a topic that can generate interest. Meaning at its most concrete is tied to the things...

May 17, 2019
comments 5
Book Reviews, Charles, Gardening & Farming, Political Economy, Practical Skills, Social Behavior

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

Published by Charles

Sapiens is a book of history, but its main thrust is philosophical. It explores, or tries to explore, the conundrum that if man is built to seek meaning, but...

May 15, 2019
comments 10
Book Reviews, Charles, Great Divergence, Longitudinal History, Primitive Cultures, Social Behavior

Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life (Daymond John)

Published by Charles

People often ask me, as I stride the halls of power in my custom Zegna suits wove with thread of gold, how I became so rich and successful. Like...

April 30, 2019
comments 13
Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles

Richard Nixon: The Life (John Farrell)

Published by Charles

Richard Nixon’s name is often invoked, but what we hear, for the most part, is not history. Rather it is incantation, much like watching a medieval morality play, where...

April 26, 2019
comment 1
American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis

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On Francisco Franco

Published by Charles

Few Americans know much about Francisco Franco, leader of the winning side in the Spanish Civil War and subsequently dictator of Spain. Yet from 1936 until 1975, he was...

April 16, 2019
comments 10
Analysis, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, European History, Left-Liberalism, Military History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Reaction, War, Wars To Come

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson)

Published by Charles

Anybody who has been paying attention has long grasped the truth: underpopulation, not overpopulation, is our problem. This will soon be true on a global scale, it is already...

February 12, 2019
comments 12
Apocalypse, Book Reviews, Charles, Political Economy, Popular, Science, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

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 21
Analysis, Business & Money, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Sex Roles, Social Justice Warriors

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 13
Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Popular, Reaction, Social Behavior

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Tim Wu)

Published by Charles

As the ideological tectonic plates shift in America, many apparently settled matters have become unsettled.  This creates, at the same time, both conflict and strange bedfellows, though I suspect...

November 18, 2018
comments 4
American History, Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Conservatism, Great Fragmentation, Political Discussion & Analysis, Political Economy, Popular, Social Behavior, Technology

On the Subjective Mental State of Liberals

Published by Charles

In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel famously asked “What Is it Like to be a Bat?”  Nagel rejected reductionism, the idea that all consciousness can be reduced to simpler components...

November 4, 2018
comments 15
Analysis, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Popular, Social Behavior

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us. . . . (Michael Pollan)

Published by Charles

I have led a boring life, at least as measured by the topics covered by this book, Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind.  Not only have I never...

October 12, 2018
comments 5
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian Theology, Life Advice, Popular, Religion, Science

How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt)

Published by Charles

This may be the worst well-written book I have ever read.  That is, most awful books are bad in their writing, bad in their organization, bad in their reasoning,...

September 25, 2018
comments 4
American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Great Fragmentation, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Reaction, Social Justice Warriors, Wars To Come

On Preemptive Apologies by Conservatives

Published by Charles

A disability afflicts nearly all conservative arguments today.  Rather than being a robust picture of vigor and health, as they should given their firm ground in reality and the...

September 19, 2018
comments 0
Analysis, Charles, Conservatism, Great Fragmentation, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Popular, Reaction, Social Behavior, Social Justice Warriors

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)

Published by Charles

While pretty much everyone in this book who is rich and powerful comes off looking bad, it is less a tale of typical fraud, like a Ponzi scheme, and...

May 24, 2018
comments 2
Book Reviews, Business & Money, Charles, Law, Popular, Science, Technology

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Steven Pinker)

Published by Charles

As with Steven Pinker’s earlier The Better Angels of Our Nature, of which this is really an expansion and elucidation, I was frustrated by this book.  On the one...

February 16, 2018
comments 9
Book Reviews, Charles, Great Divergence, Left-Liberalism, Political Economy, Popular, Social Behavior, Technology

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World (Charles C. Mann)

Published by Charles

This book addresses what is, as far as the material comforts of the modern age, the central question of our time—can mankind have it all?  The author, Charles Mann,...

February 9, 2018
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