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Fitzpatrick’s War (Theodore Judson)

Fitzpatrick’s War, a prophetic 2004 work of fiction, which I read on a whim, has, somewhat to my surprise, stuck deeply in my mind. Not only does the book...

April 18, 2022

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Against Counsels of Defeat

Published by Charles Haywood

To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. Therefore, we must know what the Left is. I use a consistent core definition—the Left is those who follow the...

February 11, 2022

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Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II (Sean McMeekin)

Published by Charles Haywood

We are not a serious society. Our ruling class are men of no substance, lacking all knowledge and incapable of competent action on any front. The masses, while they...

November 4, 2021

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Industrial Society and Its Future (Theodore John Kaczynski)

Published by Charles Haywood

What role should technology—the complex of machines and computers that undergirds our world—play in our future? This is a crucial question, and among thinking people today there exists a...

October 22, 2021

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On the Future Ascent of a Caesar

Published by Charles Haywood

I recently wrote about what might happen after an American Caesar, a radical reconstructor of our polity, arose. And in these days of American humiliation and accelerating decay, a...

October 12, 2021

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The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War (Michael Seidman)

Published by Charles Haywood

My goal is winning the future, and to win, we must utterly and permanently defeat the Left. In this effort, we can learn many lessons from Spain in the...

August 1, 2021

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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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On the January 2021 Electoral Justice Protest

Published by Charles Haywood

What is truth about the January 6 Election Justice Protest?

March 23, 2021

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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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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Mark Bray)

Published by Charles Haywood

More than twenty years ago, as a very young man, I traveled in Ukraine. In one place, the local authorities were excavating a mass grave from the 1930s. Hundreds...

January 18, 2021

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On the Finnish Civil War

Published by Charles Haywood

You have likely never heard of the Finnish Civil War. A brief war, in some ways a simple war, it lasted only three months, from late January to late...

November 30, 2020

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (Rod Dreher)

Published by Charles Haywood

A disease is going around. No, not the Wuhan Plague. This malady only affects the Right, and I name it Scrutonism. The symptoms of Scrutonism are a razor-sharp ability...

October 19, 2020

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The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return (Michael Anton)

Published by Charles Haywood

Michael Anton’s latest, half analysis and half prophecy, is simultaneously terrifying and clarifying. As I have said before, I align very closely with Anton in both core politics and...

September 8, 2020

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Against Masks

Published by Charles Haywood

The great social argument of this instant is whether everyone should now, because of the Wuhan Plague, be required to wear face masks, and if so, under what circumstances....

May 28, 2020

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Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)

Published by Charles Haywood

Starship Troopers, sixty years old, is a famous work of science fiction. As with most Robert Heinlein novels, the point is more the ideas than plot or character. Heinlein...

May 12, 2020

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Bronze Age Mindset (Bronze Age Pervert)

Published by Charles Haywood

I am fascinated by what is to come. For someone who came of age imbibing the narrow, facile, weak, always-second-place conservative pieties of the late 1980s and the 1990s,...

September 23, 2019

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On Space

Published by Charles Haywood

I am often asked to define my political program, Foundationalism. In essence, this is a request to state its core principles. The ultimate, first-level principle of Foundationalism, is that...

July 13, 2019

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On Francisco Franco

Published by Charles Haywood

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

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Breakfast with the Dirt Cult (Samuel Finlay)

Published by Charles Haywood

In 1952, Ralph Ellison published, to great acclaim, his first and only novel, Invisible Man. The book narrated how Ellison’s protagonist, a black man, suffered social oppression. But that...

September 21, 2022

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“The Regime Will Crumble Soon. Then What?” on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson! We discuss discuss the crumbling of the regime, creepy Dark Brandon, my time as a manual worker, and what...

September 15, 2022

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The Populist Delusion (Neema Parvini)

Published by Charles Haywood

What is populism? The snap answer is rule by the people. The more accurate answer is rule by an elite who strongly claim that they govern on behalf of...

September 5, 2022

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What to Do When Caesar Comes

Published by Charles Haywood

Is a Caesar, an authoritarian reconstructor of our institutions, soon to step onto the American stage? A betting man would say yes. The debilities of our society are manifold...

August 26, 2022

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My Advice to the Young

Published by Charles Haywood

Quite often, I am asked for my opinion. You might think that the topic would be politics, or history, or perhaps business, but usually, it is not. Rather, I...

August 13, 2022

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Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (John Michael Greer)

Published by Charles Haywood

I am both pessimist and optimist about our future. I expect our civilization, that of the West, to end entirely, and soon. Yet at the same time, I believe...

July 27, 2022

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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (Ananyo Bhattacharya)

Published by Charles Haywood

This is a disappointing book. Not awful, but not good. The Man from the Future manages to take the life of the polymath John von Neumann and to make...

July 22, 2022

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Throw-Back Thursday: On the January 2021 Electoral Justice Protest

Published by Charles Haywood

What is truth about the January 6 Election Justice Protest?

July 20, 2022

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American History, Charles, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Herbert S. Terrace)

Published by Charles Haywood

When I was growing up in the 1980s, a staple belief of socially-correct thinking was that many non-human animals, not only apes but also dolphins, whales, and elephants, had,...

July 19, 2022

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On Manual Work for Men

Published by Charles Haywood

Those who rule us seek to stamp out masculinity. Over the pastseveral decades their attacks have been wildly successful, as a glance around you will show. True, in some...

July 14, 2022

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The Children of Men (P. D. James)

Published by Charles Haywood

A constant complaint of today’s Right is that our civilization has been ruined politically and spiritually by decades of Left dominance. But we pay less mind to the physical...

July 11, 2022

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Throw-Back Thursday: Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life (Daymond John)

Published by Charles Haywood

[In which I tell you how I got rich, and how you (maybe) can too. This was originally published on April 30, 2019.] People often ask me, as I...

July 7, 2022

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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Ben Westhoff)

Published by Charles Haywood

Fentanyl, Inc. updates Sam Quinones’s seminal 2015 Dreamland, about the American opioid epidemic, focusing on the synthetic opioid fentanyl, the use of which has exploded in the past five...

July 2, 2022

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The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century (Stephen De Young)

Published by Charles Haywood

Myths about Christianity abound, and some myths even pass as common knowledge. One myth is that Christians, after Jesus Christ started a new religion, worshipped in a very simple...

June 17, 2022

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Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology

First Do No Harm (Paracelsus)

Published by Charles Haywood

A review by me of this book has been published in the excellent journal IM-1776. The first paragraph, and a link to the entire review, and the journal itself,...

June 14, 2022

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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Hannah Farber)

Published by Charles Haywood

A review by me of this book has been published in the outstanding quarterly American Affairs, to which everyone should subscribe. The first paragraph, and a link to the...

May 22, 2022

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Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

If, as Carl Schmitt asserted in Political Theology, “all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts,” what does that imply for political forms?...

May 18, 2022

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A Gallop in Ethiopia: Wax, Gold & the Abyssinian Pony (Yves-Marie Stranger)

Published by Charles Haywood

It has been a long time, a millennium and a half, since Ethiopia was a relevant player on the world stage. But I sometimes wonder if, as the present...

May 8, 2022

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Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Social Behavior, The Orient

The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (James Burnham)

Published by Charles Haywood

Who rules? That’s what we all want to know. The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham’s still-influential 1941 book (the subject, for example, of recent pieces by Aaron Renn and Julius...

May 1, 2022

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Fitzpatrick’s War (Theodore Judson)

Published by Charles Haywood

Fitzpatrick’s War, a prophetic 2004 work of fiction, which I read on a whim, has, somewhat to my surprise, stuck deeply in my mind. Not only does the book...

April 18, 2022

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Podcast with Good Ol Boyz: Foundationalism with Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

My recent appearance with Maarek and Bog Beef of the Good Ol Boyz podcast. We cover patronage, elites, what young people should do with an eye to the future,...

April 13, 2022

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The Fate of Empires (John Bagot Glubb)

Published by Charles Haywood

What Americans need now is a cheery book that assures us how our global power and hegemony are destined to last, if not forever, for a good deal longer....

March 31, 2022

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The Stakes: Trajectory of Tyranny (Michael Anton and Charles)

Published by Charles Haywood

The people, they demand yet more Michael Anton and Charles! This time, of Ukraine, Canada, and tyranny in general and as currently being applied. I am again pleased to...

March 5, 2022

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On the Marble Cliffs (Ernst Jünger)

Published by Charles Haywood

As the twenty-first century grinds on, with history returning in spades, Ernst Jünger, German warrior and philosopher, grows more relevant every day. This book, On the Marble Cliffs, I...

February 28, 2022

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“The Death of Late-Stage Leftism,” on The Pete Quinones Show

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my (second) discussion on The Pete Quinones Show! We discuss my recent article, Against Counsels of Defeat, Canadian truckers, regime fragility, and the inevitability of Left...

February 17, 2022

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“Building the Post-Liberal Future,” on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion on Counter-Flow, with Buck Johnson! We discuss Foundationalism, Orthodoxy, and how our coming post-liberal future is going to be super awesome—if we play it...

February 15, 2022

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Against Counsels of Defeat

Published by Charles Haywood

To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. Therefore, we must know what the Left is. I use a consistent core definition—the Left is those who follow the...

February 11, 2022

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Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)

Published by Charles Haywood

How will our current regime fall? That’s what we all want to know. For those who have eyes to see, it is obvious the American regime is extremely fragile....

February 7, 2022

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Book Reviews, Charles, Communism, Eastern European History, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Social Behavior, Wars To Come

God Is a Man of War: The Problem of Violence in the Old Testament (Stephen De Young)

Published by Charles Haywood

Many, if not most, modern Christians are crypto-Marcionites. They resonate with the heresy that God, as revealed in the Old Testament, is different from God as revealed by Jesus...

January 26, 2022

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Book Reviews, Charles, Christian History, Christian Theology, Religion, War

Discussion with Charles on Third Way Radio

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion, in essence an interview of me, on Third Way Radio, a presentation of New Frontier! This features Haywood in high gear and taking no...

January 23, 2022

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Anabasis; Or, The March Up-Country (Xenophon)

Published by Charles Haywood

Are you often disheartened by the world around us? Do you see almost nothing but enervation and cowardice displayed in public life? Of course you are, and you do,...

January 19, 2022

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Book Reviews, Charles, Classical History, Military History, Social Behavior, War

Young Men and Fire (Norman Maclean)

Published by Charles Haywood

Not long ago, as I wrote, I was listening to a playlist on Spotify (I listen to music when I write, but never when I read). It was Spotify’s...

January 11, 2022

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American History, Book Reviews, Charles, Science, Sex Roles, Social Behavior

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Carl Schmitt)

Published by Charles Haywood

“Sovereign is he who decides the exception.” Among serious students of political philosophy, at least on the Right, these may be the most famous words of the twentieth century....

December 15, 2021

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Book Reviews, Carl Schmitt, Charles, European History, Law, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism

Announcement: Discussion between Navarra Confidencial and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Navarra Confidencial, a Spanish news and opinion site! For better or worse, I speak no Spanish, so it is all in English. We...

December 12, 2021

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America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928 (Jeremy Beer)

Published by Charles Haywood

A hundred years ago, Booth Tarkington was probably the most famous and successful author in America. But today, even in Indiana, his birthplace and the state with which he...

December 8, 2021

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Human, Forever (James Poulos)

Published by Charles Haywood

Digital communications technology is yet mostly a formless thing, still being born, upon which we moderns imprint our fears and our hopes. Some dreamers see it as an unalloyed...

November 30, 2021

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A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right (Matthew Rose)

Published by Charles Haywood

A review by me of this book has been published in the excellent journal IM-1776. The first paragraph, and a link to the entire review, and the journal itself,...

November 26, 2021

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Book Reviews, Charles, Conservatism, Political Discussion & Analysis, Post-Liberalism, Third-Party Participation, Wars To Come

Announcement: Discussion between Tommy Salmons (Year Zero) and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Tommy Salmons on his Year Zero podcast! We have a freewheeling and wide-ranging discussion, containing much abuse of our current government, talk about...

November 23, 2021

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The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam (Bat Ye’or)

Published by Charles Haywood

For twenty years, our rulers have propagandized us with two contradictory claims. First, that the West is locked in an existential conflict with Islam, justifying any spending, any killing,...

November 18, 2021

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Announcement: Discussion between Prof. Edward Dutton (aka The Jolly Heretic) and Charles

Published by Charles Haywood

Now available is my discussion with Professor Edward Dutton, aka The Jolly Heretic! Professor Dutton is an expert on evolutionary biology and related matters, which we mention in the...

November 9, 2021

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