The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Society & Culture
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, from 1921, is the original dystopia that spawned all other twentieth-century dystopias portrayed in literature. Despite being the oldest dystopia, it is in some ways the most relevant one for today, more so than the more famous 1984 and Brave New World. Yet its most crucial lesson is almost always ignored. (The written version of this review can be found here.)
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (James Stevens Curl)
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny (William Strauss and Neil Howe)
On the “Dark Enlightenment,” and of Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm (Thomas P. Hughes)
Eumeswil (Ernst Jünger)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (James Fitzjames Stephen)
On Battlefield V
The Language of the Third Reich (Victor Klemperer)
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Robert Irwin)
Invisible Planets (Hannu Rajaniemi)
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 (Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi)
Orbánland: How I Came To Understand Viktor Orbán’s Hungary And The Future Of Europe (Lasse Skytt)
48 Hours (William Fortschen)
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics (Michael Malice)
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America (Chris Arnade)
Conformity: The Power of Social Influences (Cass R. Sunstein)
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express (Jim DeFelice)
On Space
Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (Tom Shippey)
The Social Media Upheaval (Glenn Harlan Reynolds)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Dairyland Frights
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL