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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
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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 4
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
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American History, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis

The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs (Martin Mosebach)

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This book is, brought to the temporal sphere, Revelation 20:4. “I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of...

April 23, 2019
comments 7
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Islam & The Islamic World, Religion, The Orient, Wars To Come

On Quillette

Published by Charles

As American politics splinters, the artificial limits that have calcified journalism for decades also fragment. It is like seeing an expanse covered by acres of concrete suddenly shatter, and,...

April 20, 2019
comments 17
Analysis, Charles, Great Fragmentation, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Wars To Come

On Francisco Franco

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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, Reaction, War, Wars To Come

From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith (Sohrab Ahmari)

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This is not a Muslim conversion memoir. Yes, Islam shows up quite a bit in the discussion, as it must in any book that discusses cultures in the Middle...

April 14, 2019
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Atheism, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Islam & The Islamic World, Religion, The Orient, Wars To Come

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (David Reich)

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We have all heard of the fad for DNA ancestry testing. Being a paranoid, I haven’t joined the crowd, because all testing companies are happy to hand over the...

April 11, 2019
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Book Reviews, Charles, Ethnography, Great Divergence, Longitudinal History, Primitive Cultures, Science

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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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 4
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

The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs (Martin Mosebach)

Published by Charles

This book is, brought to the temporal sphere, Revelation 20:4. “I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of...

April 23, 2019
comments 7
Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Islam & The Islamic World, Religion, The Orient, Wars To Come

On Quillette

Published by Charles

As American politics splinters, the artificial limits that have calcified journalism for decades also fragment. It is like seeing an expanse covered by acres of concrete suddenly shatter, and,...

April 20, 2019
comments 17
Analysis, Charles, Great Fragmentation, Left-Liberalism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Wars To Come

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, Reaction, War, Wars To Come

From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith (Sohrab Ahmari)

Published by Charles

This is not a Muslim conversion memoir. Yes, Islam shows up quite a bit in the discussion, as it must in any book that discusses cultures in the Middle...

April 14, 2019
comments 0
Atheism, Biography & Autobiography, Book Reviews, Charles, Islam & The Islamic World, Religion, The Orient, Wars To Come

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (David Reich)

Published by Charles

We have all heard of the fad for DNA ancestry testing. Being a paranoid, I haven’t joined the crowd, because all testing companies are happy to hand over the...

April 11, 2019
comments 4
Book Reviews, Charles, Ethnography, Great Divergence, Longitudinal History, Primitive Cultures, Science

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