The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

My thoughts on political symbology, in particular that of Foundationalism, through the prism of this erudite book on European bears and their cultural history.

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James Burnham's classic work on power in politics.  Perhaps too gnostic, but nonetheless with much insight into today, particularly with respect to "democratic totalitarianism," on full display in the present moment.

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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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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.

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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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It's always interesting to learn about the past, although we should not overrate the importance of justly-defeated peoples such as the Aztecs. But what is the limiting principle of moving mankind forward?

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Why are the vast majority of Western reactions to the Wuhan Plague irrational? This classic work helps us understand.

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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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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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Hannah Arendt's semi-worthwhile thoughts on revolution, mostly superseded or proven wrong in the fifty years since, and written in an opaque and annoying style.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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