The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

A competent history of the Kurdish warlord Saladin, and his battles against Christians in the Holy Land. And of modern distorted and false views of his works.

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Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come.

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A classic work about religion, law, and governance in pre-history, and how those structures formed the Greece and Rome we know.

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Why the golden calf of Gross Domestic Product should be rejected as a measure of America's flourishing.

The written version of this review was first published in The American Mind, and can be found here (https://americanmind.org/salvo/golden-calf-of-the-grand-old-party/)

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The second volume in Ronald Hutton's trilogy biography of Oliver Cromwell.  And of how England could sure use a new Cromwell as of this moment.

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Of the life and death of the Leviathan state of Thomas Hobbes, and much else besides, as always with Carl Schmitt, including how the end of that state led to the administrative/managerial state and the triumph of destructive, soulless technique.

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Of empires and their fall, and whether America can or should remain an empire, or become just a nation again.

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Of the Red Stick War of 1813, and of the American Indian, past and future.

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A complete analysis of private justice, both in the abstract and in the circumstances in which Americans today find ourselves.

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An examination of Russian Orthodoxy in modern Russia, and of what that implies for the future of Russia.

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