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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska)

This was not the book that I thought it would be. It is not an apologetic for Palantir Technologies, except incidentally. Nor is it primarily a cry to extend the American empire. Rather, it...

Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism (Stanley G. Payne)

Nobody except a total halfwit maintains that the great Francisco Franco was any type of fascist, even aside from the notorious difficulty of defining fascism, exacerbated by the Left’s constant use of it to...

Reminder: Cross-Posting to Substack

Since the end of last year, I have been publishing all new articles simultaneously at Substack, as well as re-posting older articles in reverse chronological order there. While this site has been the primary...

The Timerman (Theodore Judson)

For years I have been waiting for this moment—the republication, courtesy of Ark Press, of Fitzpatrick’s War, by Theodore Judson, and the first appearance of its sequel, The Timerman. What Judson offers in these...

Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth (Michael Anton)

When reading a work of politics or history, substance tends to overshadow quality. Whether the writing is felicitous, whether it has that rare, compelling “flash,” is too often ignored, even though it is writing...

A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness (Michael Pollan)

Materialism, the ideology which believes that everything in the universe can be explained by causes and effects tied to matter, has had a bad twenty-first century. It is not so much that it has...

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch)

This is a strange book. Christopher Lasch, who published The Culture of Narcissism in 1979, wrote this sociological study at what seemed like the nadir of American vitality. His book freezes in time the...

Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry (Adrian Goldsworthy)

Americans, sadly, know almost nothing about the history of Persia. Of itself, this doesn’t mean a great deal, since most Americans don’t know much about the history of anywhere. But today, as America attacks...

The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Carl Schmitt)

An evil stench has accompanied the term “new world order” ever since George H. W. Bush used it in 1990, formally inaugurating the American Regime’s attempt to subjugate the globe to Left hegemony, dubbed...

End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers (Gord Magill)

A few months ago, I showed our young children 1977’s “Smokey and the Bandit.” As with so many movies that are more than twenty years old, watching it is like stepping into a different,...