Political Discussion & Analysis

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...

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...

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,...

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 mistake), to be merely another tedious libertarian manifesto. Moreover, dimwits...

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 not so much about our uncertain future, but about why...

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 he coined. Of itself, his philosophy would certainly be of...

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 that nobody in the West had foreseen. It turned out,...

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)

It is common knowledge that the vast majority of sociology is completely worthless, or worse than worthless, and that “social science” is an oxymoron. Still, the study of the societies of man can be...