Category: Politics and Philosophy

“We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant. The daily news cycle is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes.” Murray points out the absurdities and internal...

Is it possible for a book to be TOO logical? Prior to reading this I would have said “no,” but now I’m not so sure. A lot of long boring X = Y + Z sort of statements, mixed in with deep thought about political philosophy and morality. Nozick makes a strong case for a minimal state being the most...

Apparently this book was a big influence on former Breitbart editor and Trump advisor Steve Bannon, so I thought I’d give it a try. In a nutshell, the book advances the view that history roughly repeats itself every 80 years. Further, every 80 year period is characterized by four “turnings.” A High, an Awakening, an Unraveling, and a Crisis. In...

There are very few books which have been maligned as much as this one. The title of this book can be misunderstood, and it usually is (by people who have never read past the front cover). Ms. Rand’s definition of selfishness is not where someone has something, and refuses to share it with someone else. What is meant here is...

Antifa are a bunch of idiots who think they are fighting ‘fascism.’ This book attempts to justify their actions with double-speak, self-congratulation, victim-posing, and logical fallacies. I read it – or at least tried to read it – in order to understand my enemy. Unfortunately, they don’t even understand themselves.

A critique of the Frankfort School philosophers and their influence on the modern Left. An influence that the typical Leftist is completely unaware of. The book is just okay, but it does have a few gems in it, such as… “What would the Left do without delusion? It is the cornerstone of their philosophy. A desperate desire to look at...

I never knew much about Machiavelli, except that he was a dick. But I didn’t really know that either, that was just the impression I was led to believe by my teachers, media, and popular culture. Instead, Machiavelli and the philosophers who expanded on his findings were great men with keen insights. So much of political thinking is based on...

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.

What is the core difference between liberal and conservative? A fundamentally different vision of human nature.

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.

No one is smarter than a million other people.

Leftists love snappy slogans. But these slogans are nearly always bullshit and they almost never really mean what they say.

The Fascists of the past were an inspiration to the American Left and they’ve adopted almost all of their policies while continuing to insist that fascism is on the political Right.

How the Republican Party was taken over by neoconservative lunatics hell bent on exporting American democracy whether anyone else wanted it or not.

A kinder, gentler approach to Libertarian ideas from a woman’s perspective. A bit too fluffy-bunny for me, but probably a perfect introduction for those hopelessly stuck in the left/right paradigm.

It was Perkins job to get foreign leaders to accept large loans that he never expected them to pay back. By defaulting the US or some company would then take over some sector of that countries economy. Some people think Perkins made this whole story up. I don’t.

On politics and media manipulation, John Pilger usually has something worthwhile to say, on economic matters, he’s a moron.

A socialist whines about corporations exploiting the poor, but never bothers to ask “compared to what?”

Why the good intentions of foreign aid so often fail, and what works better.

What if both ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are wrong? What if there is a third or fourth or fifth option? This book examines a variety of topics from an Anarcho-Capitalist point of view.

I resisted picking up an Ann Coulter book for many many years. That was a mistake. She is both hilarious and insightful.

The memoir of a political speech writer who worked his way up through Congress, the Senate, and eventually writing for George W. Bush. Fascinating and hilarious.

In this book I learned that Micheal Moore is a stupid white man.