I am here to give you back your future. Human flourishing in the coming post-liberal West. The hour
Of Robert Gould Shaw, a man who was once the embodiment of heroism, and of what heroism means, and s
Hannah Arendt's semi-worthwhile thoughts on revolution, mostly superseded or proven wrong in the fif
The dense-but-very-worthwhile thoughts of Carl Schmitt, preeminent political philosopher, on democra
Our future, if we have the will to grasp it, in a nutshell. The written version of this review can b
Something different--not a complete Worthy House offering, but a direction to one related to The Wor
Of a forgotten book that precisely predicts our current American situation, and is a salutary remind
The insane, yet weirdly compelling and with flashes of great insight, vision of the late Guillaume F
Of the downsides, and a few upsides, of private equity and other financial engineering, viewed throu
And now for something completely different, an eighty-year-old work about medieval philosophies. (Th
A story of achievement and accomplishment, gripping in every detail, which highlights how far we hav
The original Man of Destiny, a possible template for our own future Man of Destiny. (The written ver
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, from 1921, is the original dystopia that spawned all other twentieth-century
The prolific Peter Turchin offers another attempt to quantify and mathematize history. It's not bad,
From 2018, one of several then-current books about the impending end of democracy; although this one
Thoughts on the practical effects and social impact of small-scale agriculture, along with thoughts
From 2018, through the lens of a classic work of applied politics, thoughts on coups (which have not
René Girard's exposition of the mechanisms of societal violence. Deeply insightful, and with potent
Phillip Bobbitt's interpretation of Machiavelli's world view and attempted synthesis of his works, a
On one of the seminal events of modern history, the January 6, 2021 Electoral Justice Protest—and of
On a classic introductory work on Eastern Orthodoxy, with thoughts on Orthodoxy's relation to the We
