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Achebe, Chinua
– Things Fall Apart
Alexander, Christopher
– A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Aristotle
– Politics [freetext]
– Nicomachean Ethics [freetext]
Aurelius, Marcus
– Meditations
Austen, Jane
– Pride and Prejudice
– Emma
Babbitt, Irving
– Democracy and Leadership
de Benoist, Alain
– [review] The Problem of Democracy
– [review] Manifesto for a European Renaissance
Bloom, Allan
– The Closing of the American Mind
de Bonald, Louis
– The True and Only Wealth of Nations
Bork, Robert
– Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
Bradbury, Ray
– Fahrenheit 451
Bradley, Owen
– A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph de Maistre
Breivik, Anders
– 2083: A European Declaration of Independence
Brooks, David
– Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
Brownson, Orestes
– The American Republic
Buchanan, Patrick
– [review] Suicide of a Superpower
Bucke, Richard Maurice
– Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
Buckley, William F.
– God and Man at Yale
Burnham, James
– Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
– The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
Burroughs, William S.
– Naked Lunch
Calhoun, John C.
– A Disquisition on Government
Card, Orson Scott
– Ender’s Game
Carlyle, Thomas
– On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
– The History and Geography of Human Genes
– Genes, Peoples, and Languages
– The Genetics of Human Populations
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
– Journey to the End of the Night
– Death on the Installment Plan
Chambers, Whittaker
– Witness
Charlton, Bruce
– Thought Prison
Churchland, Patricia Smith
– Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
Coon, Carleton
– The Races of Europe
Cooper, James Fenimore
– The American Democrat
Crichton, Michael
– Travels
Davidson, Donald
– The Attack on Leviathan
Delillo, Don
– White Noise
Donovan, David [interview]
– [review] Once a Warrior King: Memories of an Officer in Vietnam
Durant, Will
– [review] The Story of Philosophy
Eckhart, Johannes
– Selected Writings
Eliot, T. S.
– Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
Evola, Julius [profile]
– [review] Metaphysics of War
Faulkner, William
– Collected Stories
Faye, Guillaume
– [review] Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age
– Convergence of Catastrophes
– [review] Why We Fight
Fehrenbach, T.R.
– Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans
Feser, Edward
– “The Metaphysics of Conservatism”
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
– The Great Gatsby
– Tender is the Night
Fleming, Thomas
– A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
Folsom, Burton W.
– The Myth of the Robber Barons
Fukuyama, Francis
– The End of History and the Last Man
Gates, R.R.
– Heredity and Eugenics
Garrett, Henry
– IQ And Racial Differences
Garvey, Marcus
– Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Gasset, José Ortega y
– The Revolt of the Masses
Gilder, George
– Men and Marriage
Goldwater, Barry
– The Conscience of a Conservative
Gottfried, Paul
– War and Demoracy
Grant, Madison
– The Passing of the Great Race
Griffin, Roger
– Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler
Guénon, René
– The Crisis of the Modern World
– The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times
Günther, Hans F.K.
– The Racial Elements of European History
Haidt, Jonathan
– The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
– The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Hammerton, James A.
– “A Critique of Libertarianism”
Hardin, Garrett
– “The Tragedy of the Commons”
Hemingway, Ernest
– The Sun Also Rises
Heraclitus
– Fragments
Herodotus
– The Histories
Herzl, Theodor
– The Jewish State
Hogg, Quintin
– The Case for Conservatism
Hollander, Paul
– Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society
Homer
– The Odyssey
– The Iliad
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann
– A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline
– Democracy–The God That Failed
Houellebecq, Michel
– Whatever
– The Elementary Particles
– Platform
– The Possibility of an Island
– The Map and the Territory
– Submission
– H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
Huntington, Samuel
– The Clash of Civilizations
– American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
Huxley, Aldous
– Brave New World
– The Perennial Philosophy
Kaczynski, Theodore
– Industrial Society and Its Future
Kant, Immanuel
– Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Kipling, Rudyard
– Kipling: Poems
Kirk, Russell
– The Portable Conservative Reader
– The Conservative Mind
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
– Dictatorships and double standards: Rationalism and reason in politics
Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik Ritter von
– Menace of The Herd
Lasch, Christopher
– The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
Laslett, Peter
– The World We Have Lost: Further Explored
Linkola, Pentti
– Can Life Prevail?
Lynn, Richard
– Eugenics: A Reassessment (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
– Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis
– The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide
– IQ and Global Inequality
– Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations
de Maistre, Joseph
– Considerations on France
Mallock, W. H.
– Is Life Worth Living?
Mead, Margaret
– Male and Female
Mill, John Stuart
– On Liberty
Murray, Charles
– The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
– Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Mussolini, Benito
– My Autobiography: With “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism” [freetext]
Nietzsche, F.W.
– Beyond Good & Evil
– Human, All Too Human
– On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Nisbet, Robert A.
– Conservatism: Dream and Reality
Niven, Larry
– Lucifer’s Hammer (with Jerry Pournelle)
Oakeshott, Michael
– Rationalism in Politics and other essays
O’Meara, Michael
– New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe
Orwell, George
– Animal Farm
Peek, George A.
– The Political Writings of John Adams
Plato
– Republic [freetext]
– Timaeus and Critias [freetext]
Pinker, Stephen
– The Blank Slate
Putnam, Robert D.
– Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Roepke, Wilhelm
– The Social Crisis of our Times
Rushton, J. Philippe
– Race, Evolution and Behavior: A Life History Perspective
Saunders, George
– CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Schlafly, Phyllis
– Feminist Fantasies
Schmitt, Carl
– The Concept of the Political
– Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
– The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum
– Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
Schopenhauer, Arthur
– On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Scruton, Roger
– The Case for an Environmental Conservatism
Shelley, Mary
– Frankenstein
Southgate, Troy [profile]
– Tradition and Revolution
Sowell, Thomas
– Ethnic America: A History
– Race And Culture: A World View
Spengler, Oswald
– Decline of the West
– Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
Stephen, James Fitzjames
– Liberty. Equality. Fraternity.
Steele, Shelby
– The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
Stevens, Brett (heh)
– Introduction to Post-Liberal Thought
Stoddard, Lothrop
– The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
Sunic, Tomislav
– Against Democracy and Equality (with Alain de Benoist)
Tainter, Joseph
– The Collapse of Complex Societies
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
– Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
– The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Taylor, Jared [profile]
– [review] White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Thucydides
– History of the Peloponnesian War
de Tocqueville, Alexis
– Democracy in America
Vonnegut, Kurt
– “Harrison Bergeron” [freetext]
Wade, Nicholas
– A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Watkins, Calvert
– The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
Weaver, Richard
– Ideas Have Consequences
Weininger, Otto
– Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
Willinger, Markus
– Generation Identity
Wilson, David Sloan
– Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Wilson, Francis Graham
– The Case for Conservatism
Wolfe, Tom
– The Pump House Gang
– Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
– The Painted Word
– Hooking Up
Woodruff, Paul
– [review] Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Wright, Peter
– SpyCatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
X, Malcolm
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley