Author: dennis
Civilization
Why did a few small polities in Europe come to dominate the rest of the world? Ferguson attributes this to the West’s development of six “killer apps”, which he claims are largely missing elsewhere in the world – “competition, science, the rule of law, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic”. Ferguson compared and contrasted how the West’s “killer apps” allowed the West...
The New Right
A sort-of explanation of the New Right and some of its more prominent characters. It’s interesting, but the author spends a bit too much effort espousing his own ideas rather than the ones the book is supposedly about.
Inventing Freedom
Did you ever notice that has been the English speaking people who have defined and defended freedom around the world? Well, they have. And it is an amazing tale.
The Rational Optimist
If there’s one book that I wish I wrote, it’s this one. Despite the constant barrage of doom and disaster, the world is better now than it’s ever been. Don’t believe it? Read this first and get back to me…
Factfulness
Why do people believe things about the world that are wrong? Hans Rosling proposes ten reasons in this great little book.
The Strange Death of Europe
Falling birth rates and rising immigration are changing the character of Europe into something else. Something not as good.
The Roosevelt Myth
FDR is often listed as one of America’s best Presidents, but this book makes him out as one of the worst. The man who put the “great” in the Great Depression, helped start WWII, and gave half of Europe to the Communists.
Cuckservative
In explaining the new swear word that the Right hates and the Left refuses to use, Vox Day explains the origins of what is called the ‘Alt-Right,’ and just how much mainstream conservatives suck.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
This book is full of mind-blowing information by the ever-informative and fearless Thomas Sowell.
A Conflict of Visions
What is the core difference between liberal and conservative? A fundamentally different vision of human nature.
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell cuts through economic bullshit like a weed-wacker. Title sounds dry but this book is dynamite.
Dismantling America
The book that started my red-pill awakening. I picked it up by accident at a book store and it so blew my mind that I immediately put it down and left the store.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell should probably win a Nobel prize for identifying the core difference between thinkers on the Left and Right. A conflict of visions.
Conquests and Cultures
The various peoples of the world have their own cultures, when they conquer someone else, they bring their culture with them.