A collection of book reviews from the perspective of a conservative college student.
Bob MacGuffie and Antony Stark, authors of The Seventh Crisis The country is now convulsed by attacks on its history, heritage, heroes, myths, and culture… Read More »“American Marxism” – The Threat Inside the Gate
The first book in James Rosone’s “Rise of the Republic” series, Into the Stars, was, I thought, absolutely fabulous. Like Heinlen’s Orphans of the Sky,… Read More »Review of Into the Battle by James Rosone
What if, in the next few decades, humans start to return to the stars? If all the progress that was halted after the Apollo program… Read More »Review of Into the Stars by James Rosone
What is The Handbook of Traditional Living? Here’s what the authors say: “The publication of the present booklet serves two complementary purposes: a) to present… Read More »Review of A Handbook of Traditional Living by Raido
‘If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most… Read More »Review of Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
In my review of The Odyssey, I noted how the Greeks of the Bronze Age are the ones we will remember for all time. They… Read More »Review of The Odyssey by Homer
Epics hold a special place in my heart, as you’ve probably gathered from my reviews of great stories like Beowulf and The Epic of Gilgamesh.… Read More »The Illiad by Homer: A Great Epic that You Must Read
What if we’re entirely wrong about our political system? If the whole “liberal” (not meaning leftist, but rather freedom-centric) system built over the past few… Read More »Review of An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives by Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin)
When you think of generalissimos rising to power in South America, a few key figures likely come to mind. Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, Juan Peron… Read More »Review of Augusto Pinochet: The Life and Legacy of Chile’s Controversial Dictator by Charles River Editors
Few on the right seem to get that things are changing. Gone are the days of Buckley, the Gipper, and other “traditional” conservatives groups like… Read More »Review of 4D Warfare: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics by Jack Posobiec
Although I, being a Christian, know Norse mythology to be false, I’ve always been drawn to it. When I was younger, I was fascinated by… Read More »The Wanderer’s Havamal: Knowledge and Lessons from Odin
As readers of the past few months likely already know, I am a huge fan of epics. The mythical to semi-mythical stories of past heroes,… Read More »The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Story You Must Read
In Vengeance, the fourth book in the Falling Empire series written by James Rosone and Miranda Watson, a series beginning with the book Rigged that… Read More »Review of Vengeance by James Rosone and Miranda Watson
In Rigged, the first book of the Falling Empire series, Rosone and Watson’s terrific series about a second American Civil War, internal American politics approach… Read More »Review of Peacekeepers by James Rosone and Miranda Watson
What if a global cabal of financiers, globalist-minded leaders of NGOs, and members of governments hostile to the US decided that a president was so… Read More »Review of Rigged by James Rosone and Miranda Watson
Introduction How much better it is to read of a rise rather than a fall! After reading Gibbon’s monumental and fantastic The History of the… Read More »Review of The History of Rome by Livy
One of the greatest Western leaders was Winston Churchill. Standing alone against the weight of the Third Reich and Imperial Japanese, he weathered one of… Read More »Review of Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macauley
As I wrote in my review of The Monroe Doctrine Volume I, James Rosone and Miranda Watson are excellent writers of military fiction. Their books… Read More »Review of The Monroe Doctrine Volume II by James Rosone and Miranda Watson
As you’ve probably guessed from my reviews of The Song of the Cid, The Song of Roland, Undying Glory, and Beowulf, epic stories from the… Read More »Review of Tales from the Viking Age by Matt Clayton
Introduction What was the greatest empire the world has seen? Britannia ruling the waves, carrying capitalism and the Maxim gun to every corner of the… Read More »Review of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon