

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Charles Haywood
I am here to give you back your future. Human flourishing in the coming post-liberal West. The hour is late, and Moloch is within the gates. Foundationalism. Reality-focused writings, often on history and politics.
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Aug 10, 2021 • 23min
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France’s Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando (Paul Kix)
Of masculinity, and the masculine virtues, and their loss in the modern age. (This article was first published September 27, 2018.)
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Aug 1, 2021 • 26min
The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War (Michael Seidman)
An analysis of how economic competence and success drove the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, accompanied, as always, by my own thoughts on what that means for us today.
The written version of this review can be found here.
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Jul 27, 2021 • 20min
The Russian Revolution: A New History (Sean McMeekin)
An examination of lessons to be learned from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, a time of ferment resembling ours, including the crucial lesson that great change is always a step function, not gradual. (This review was first published September 23, 2018.)
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Jul 19, 2021 • 20min
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)
Camilla Townsend, an expert on the history of the Aztecs, discusses controversial claims about Aztec homosexuality and the downfall of the Aztec civilization. She also explores the transformation of the Aztec capital and the legacy of the Spanish arrival, along with reflections on the brutality of Cortez and the justification of violence in the pursuit of societal renewal.

Jul 15, 2021 • 29min
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon)
Why are the vast majority of Western reactions to the Wuhan Plague irrational? This classic work helps us understand.
The written version of this review can be found here.
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Jul 5, 2021 • 19min
Freedom (Sebastian Junger)
What is freedom? Not in the philosophical sense; that's boring and done to death. Rather, what is freedom as something that emerges from lived reality, and how does it relate to human flourishing? Through the lens of Sebastian Junger's "Freedom," a modest book only modestly successful.
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Jun 29, 2021 • 29min
Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Russell Duncan)
Of Robert Gould Shaw, a man who was once the embodiment of heroism, and of what heroism means, and should mean, today.
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Jun 26, 2021 • 14min
On Revolution (Hannah Arendt)
Hannah Arendt's semi-worthwhile thoughts on revolution, mostly superseded or proven wrong in the fifty years since, and written in an opaque and annoying style. (This review was first published September 13, 2018.)
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Jun 22, 2021 • 30min
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Carl Schmitt)
The dense-but-very-worthwhile thoughts of Carl Schmitt, preeminent political philosopher, on democracy, parliamentarianism, liberalism, and much more, all with notable application for us today.
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Jun 17, 2021 • 50min
The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past
Our future, if we have the will to grasp it, in a nutshell.
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