The Worthy House • Toward A Politics of Future Past

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)

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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Civil War, Communism, Eastern European History, European History, Military History, War, Wars To Come