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Announcement: Cross-Posting to Substack

This site has been the primary publishing spot for my writing for nearly ten years and more than six hundred (!) articles. This is...

On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Bertrand de Jouvenel)

For years, I put off reading On Power, despite seeing frequent references to it. The book seemed, as filtered through online discourse (my first...

The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order (Philip Pilkington)

We all want to know comes next, because we sense that it will be very different from what came before. This is a book...

Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families (Johann Kurtz)

The Great Commission of the modern age is not to bring the Gospel to all nations. It is to CONSOOM! Thus, a man’s perceived...

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (Paul Kingsnorth)

In the Book of Daniel, the prophet interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of an awesome statue. It boasts a golden head and silver body, but it...

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Sebastian Junger)

I am not sure how often most people think about death. For myself, I think about my death several dozen times per day. This...

Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World (Richard Middleton)

To the extent most people ever think about Charles, Earl Cornwallis, they think of him as portrayed in Mel Gibson’s film The Patriot. There...

The Essential Paul Gottfried: Essays from 1984–2024 (Paul Gottfried)

Paul Gottfried is a great man, and you should read this book. He has spent decades offering a consistent political message, paleoconservatism, a name...

On the United Kingdom, and 1989 Eastern Europe as Harbinger

As the cliché goes, history does not repeat, but it does rhyme. Thirty-five years ago the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed overnight, something...

Stoner (John Williams)

When I was very young, my mother told me that the chief value of good fiction is it allows the reader to better understand...

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (Judith M. Bennett)

History is the story of what resulted from the acts of great men, directly and indirectly, buffeted by fortune. Thus, in the Middle Ages,...

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail (Stephen Taylor)

Among the first books I read, when around five years of age, were some written by my great uncle, Charles Frye Haywood, after whom...