Posts under ‘Books’

Introduction to the Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola by Paul Furlong Routledge, 2011, 157 pages. $138. With the opening of the 21st century, Julius Evola began his rise in the Anglosphere. New Right publishers have taken up the considerable task of importing his work from the Continent and translating it, with varying levels [...]

The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn’t Always the Smart One by Satoshi Kanazawa 272 pages, Wiley, $17 Many of you may be familiar with Satoshi Kanazawa from his column The Scientific Fundamentalist, which attempted to use the prestige of a mainstream science magazine to explore the parts of science that aren’t cuddly and [...]

We are privileged to conduct an interview with Jack Donovan, writer and publisher of masculinist theory and dissident opposing the nanny state. His latest work, The Way of Men, is a comprehensive theory of masculinity and tribalism that presents profound challenges to modernity — and vital suggestions for what comes next. Your writing style seems [...]

The Way of Men by Jack Donovan 62 pages, Dissonant Hum, $6 Very many academics have studied gender but very few have studied masculinity. As the presumed original privileged gender, masculinity does not interest those who are looking to re-make nature in the image of human preferential notions. But Donovan, along with only a handful [...]

Spycatcher by Peter Wright 481 pages, Bantam Doubleday Dell, $8 This book details the work of an outsider attempting to sniff out the worst kind of insider, namely a traitor. Peter Wright entered the UK intelligence community not as a spy, but as a scientist. Once inside, he invented gadgets, which led to planning strategy [...]

My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller by Yuri Modin 273 pages, FSG, $21 A wealth of raw information can be about the moles in Western intelligence during the Cold War, but very little of the underlying question has been answered. This question is why they did it; [...]

The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq 269 pages, Alfred A. Knopf, $16 In The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje uses the map as a postmodern device, a type of meta-plot to a novel that then contorts the character-related plot around its metaphor. This is what distinguishes postmodern novels: the metaphor leads the characters, instead [...]

Mishima: A Vision of the Void by Marguerite Yourcenar 151 pages, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $18 As a friend once noted, humanity has excelled in one thing over the past thousand years: producing alienated geniuses who articulate elaborate visions of our path as a steady walk to soulless doom. Yukio Mishima was one such person. [...]

Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms by Alain de Benoist Arktos, 117 pages, $19 This highly dangerous book contains a disturbing thesis: that the implements of democracy, namely human rights, have become a moral proposition that is obstructing the political goals of democracy including personal freedoms. Most importantly, de Benoist also offers an option to the [...]

Educating for Virtue, edited by Joseph Baldacchino Essays by Claes G. Ryn, Russell Kirk, Paul Gottfried, Peter J. Stanlis, Solveig Eggerz 114 pages, National Humanities Institute, $12 The liberal assault on a commonsense society started through its self-proclaimed outsiders: academics, hipsters, artists and criminals. It also embraced teachers, who because their jobs required education and [...]