The Worthy House • Toward A Politics of Future Past

On Marriage

Men on the Right spend a great deal of time improving ourselves. We improve our diet through changing the foods we eat; we improve our strength through weight training;...

September 26, 2023

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Analysis, Charles, Life Advice, Practical Skills, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Recent Appearances (September 2023)

Published by Charles Haywood

I was honored to appear in five different venues in the past month. Topics were particularly spicy, the result of media hit pieces on me which attracted attention from...

September 20, 2023

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Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War (Peachy Keenan)

Published by Charles Haywood

My aunt, one of my father’s two sisters, died in 2020, at the age of eighty-five. She never married, because when she was young, she convinced herself that what...

September 13, 2023

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American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Life Advice, Political Economy, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

“The China Convergence” (N. S. Lyons)

Published by Charles Haywood

We Americans sense that we live in an empire of lies. We want to understand the people and systems which control our country and society. At a minimum, we...

September 11, 2023

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Administrative State, American History, Charles, Political Discussion & Analysis, Social Behavior

On Manual Work for Men

Published by Charles Haywood

Those who rule us seek to stamp out masculinity. Over the pastseveral decades their attacks have been wildly successful, as a glance around you will show. True, in some...

August 30, 2023

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Analysis, Charles, Gardening & Farming, Life Advice, Political Economy, Practical Skills, Sex Roles, Social Behavior, Third-Party Participation

The Sunlilies: Eastern Orthodoxy As a Radical Counterculture (Graham Pardun)

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It’s time for a palate cleanser, a turn away from politics and from endless talk of the evil man does to man. Today our focus is a lovely and...

August 16, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Christian Theology, Life Advice, Religion

Recent Appearances (August 2023)

Published by Charles Haywood

I was honored to appear in six different venues recently. These were: 1) With Auron MacIntyre, for the second time, where we discussed the new kulaks. 2) With Benjamin...

August 11, 2023

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The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands (Alexander Watson)

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I suspect not one in a thousand Americans could locate Galicia, a historically-important area spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, on a map. To be fair,...

July 31, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Eastern European History, Ethnography, European History, Military History, Political Discussion & Analysis, War

America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (Christopher Rufo)

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Christopher Rufo has earned a stellar reputation as both analyst of, and strategist against, the poison of “critical theory.” In America’s Cultural Revolution, with verve, precision, and clarity, he...

July 20, 2023

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American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

The Glass Bees (Ernst Jünger)

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The Glass Bees, a novel by the crucial Ernst Jünger, is not directly a political work. The focus here is the relation of man to technology, especially the resulting...

July 10, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Science, Social Behavior, Technology

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (Patrick Deneen)

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Vladimir Lenin taught that “he who says A must say B.” He was correct, but Patrick Deneen has not listened. Deneen says A, that our Regime, our ruling class,...

June 22, 2023

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Legality and Legitimacy (Carl Schmitt)

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It is frequently said, and it is entirely true, that the Regime which rules us is illegitimate. But what does that precisely mean? No surprise, Carl Schmitt lights the...

June 1, 2023

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Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, European History, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Radical Right Authoritarianism, Wars To Come

Recent Appearances (May 2020)

Published by Charles Haywood

I was honored to appear in six different venues recently. These were: 1) The American Warrior Society podcast. 2) John Rush’s podcast. 3) A second appearance on Todd Lewis’s...

May 20, 2023

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Natal Conference 2023

Published by Charles Haywood

For quite some time, several years, long before Elon Musk, I have claimed that the coming population crash is the most significant mechanical (that is, non-spiritual) problem facing the...

May 15, 2023

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Announcement

Red Rising (Pierce Brown)

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“I would have lived in peace, but my enemies brought me war.” This is the attention-grabbing opening line of Red Rising, the first book in a popular young-adult science...

May 4, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Fiction, Foundationalism, Post-Liberalism, Science, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Social Behavior, Technology

The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium (Martin Gurri)

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As our ruling class drives the West into the ditch, from which a reborn society will probably emerge, but they and their rule will certainly not, it is natural...

April 28, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Foundationalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Technology, Wars To Come

Feminism Against Progress (Mary Harrington)

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Reality, like God, will not be mocked. This is the core message of Mary Harrington’s excellent new work, Feminism Against Progress. In challenging and compelling fashion, Harrington shows how...

April 11, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Foundationalism, Life Advice, Post-Liberalism, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Rhodesian S.A.S. Combat Manual

Published by Charles Haywood

It is common on the Right today to have conversations which five or ten years ago would have seemed insane. Notable among such discussions are those relating to violence...

March 29, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Life Advice, Popular, Practical Skills, Primitive Cultures, War, Wars To Come

The Holy Fire: The Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church (Robert Payne)

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It’s Lent, so let’s spend a little time away from politics. The Holy Fire, first published in 1957, when Eastern Orthodoxy had zero presence in the religious consciousness of...

March 23, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Religion, The Orient

Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar’s Decision and the Fate of Rome (Lucca Fezzi)

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In our failing American Republic, Julius Caesar is, for many, a condensed symbol. He stands in for everything that might bring a final, formal end to institutions already dead,...

March 2, 2023

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Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Classical History, Wars To Come

February Appearances!

Published by Charles Haywood

I was honored to appear in four different venues in February. These were: 1) A second appearance on Alex Kaschuta’s Subversive podcast. 2) An appearance on Brian Chau’s From...

February 27, 2023

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On Entrepreneurial Success

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I am often asked how I achieved entrepreneurial success. That is, how I became, in the words of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory,” “rich—yes, richer than a king.” (We...

February 20, 2023

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Biography & Autobiography, Business & Money, Charles, Popular, Practical Skills, Sex Roles

Der Fragebogen (The Questionnaire) (Ernst Von Salomon)

Published by Charles Haywood

Ernst von Salomon’s Der Fragebogen is unique, a product of the refiner’s fire, a work forged in the cataclysm of mid-twentieth-century Europe. But this once-famous, now-obscure book, published only...

February 6, 2023

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Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, European History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Radical Right Authoritarianism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

I Discuss Topical Topics on The Pete Quinones Show

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Now available is my recent discussion on The Pete Quinones Show! This was pretty spicy. We discuss the Russo-Ukraine War (including that it’s time to give Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia back...

February 2, 2023

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