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The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Tim Wu)
Tim Wu is the Jeremiah of our age. For twenty years, his has been one of the very few nuanced voices attacking concentrations of economic power as destructive of a flourishing society. Yes, others...
Announcement: Cross-Posting to Substack
This site has been the primary publishing spot for my writing for nearly ten years and more than six hundred (!) articles. This is not going to change. However, I am now cross-posting to...
On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Bertrand de Jouvenel)
For years, I put off reading On Power, despite seeing frequent references to it. The book seemed, as filtered through online discourse (my first mistake), to be merely another tedious libertarian manifesto. Moreover, dimwits...
The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order (Philip Pilkington)
We all want to know comes next, because we sense that it will be very different from what came before. This is a book not so much about our uncertain future, but about why...
Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families (Johann Kurtz)
The Great Commission of the modern age is not to bring the Gospel to all nations. It is to CONSOOM! Thus, a man’s perceived success in life is determined mostly by how many resources...
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (Paul Kingsnorth)
In the Book of Daniel, the prophet interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of an awesome statue. It boasts a golden head and silver body, but it has feet of iron mixed with clay. And when those...
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Sebastian Junger)
I am not sure how often most people think about death. For myself, I think about my death several dozen times per day. This is not a morbid fixation, merely focused self-interest combined with...
Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World (Richard Middleton)
To the extent most people ever think about Charles, Earl Cornwallis, they think of him as portrayed in Mel Gibson’s film The Patriot. There he is an aged, somewhat hapless, conflicted military officer, ultimately...
The Essential Paul Gottfried: Essays from 1984–2024 (Paul Gottfried)
Paul Gottfried is a great man, and you should read this book. He has spent decades offering a consistent political message, paleoconservatism, a name he coined. Of itself, his philosophy would certainly be of...
On the United Kingdom, and 1989 Eastern Europe as Harbinger
As the cliché goes, history does not repeat, but it does rhyme. Thirty-five years ago the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed overnight, something that nobody in the West had foreseen. It turned out,...
Stoner (John Williams)
When I was very young, my mother told me that the chief value of good fiction is it allows the reader to better understand other men and women. Even so, I have never read...
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (Judith M. Bennett)
History is the story of what resulted from the acts of great men, directly and indirectly, buffeted by fortune. Thus, in the Middle Ages, as in every age, what the common people did in...
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail (Stephen Taylor)
Among the first books I read, when around five years of age, were some written by my great uncle, Charles Frye Haywood, after whom I am named. He was a lawyer in Lynn, Massachusetts,...
John Chrysostom on the Roman Empire: A Study on the Political Thought of the Early Church (Constantine Bozinis)
In late modernity a strange delusion has taken hold among many Christians. They have come to believe that democracy, broad popular participation in how a society is governed, is a morally superior political system,...
Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)
The history of nineteenth-century Russia does not get much attention in the West, and what little it does get usually focuses on people and events seen as precursors to Russia’s chaotic later history. As...
Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Jim Rasenberger)
Every so often, some cretin threatens me on X, formerly known as Twitter. These soyboy types tend to lead by saying I appear weak and fragile. I doubt I would lose a physical fight,...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips)
In the classic 1970s Irish Republican Army anthem “My Little Armalite,” the lyrics include “Well the army came to visit me, ’twas in the early hours / With Saladins and Saracens and Ferret armored...
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)
It is common knowledge that the vast majority of sociology is completely worthless, or worse than worthless, and that “social science” is an oxymoron. Still, the study of the societies of man can be...
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
– T. E. Lawrence
As with most of my book reviews, I am not actually reviewing this book, at least in the traditional sense. Rather, I am delivering my own thoughts. If you don’t like that, well, you’re in the wrong place.
– Charles Haywood
I’m not in the apologies business. I’m in the winning business.
– Charles Haywood
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