Our culture is becoming increasingly illiterate, with most attempts at any discourse becoming shouting fruitless insults rather than attempting to build a philosophical or moral goal.
Looks like I've quite a few more books I need to read! Glad I've got one or two already taken care of. Discourses on Livy revealed to me just how uninformed I was about a great deal.
"Dedication and Leadership" by Douglass Hyde -- a five lecture series on how early stage Communist movements build their activist base and take over other institutions given by a former Communist to a Roman Catholic audience.
Fun fact: many of the techniques can also be found in the New Testament.
Dr. Jones writes challenging monographs on topics of specific historical interest. Is there a specific book you are thinking of? The most salient on the topic that I can think of is Libido Dominandi, but even that is so focused that it really doesn't hit the general cultural milestones that the other ones here do. It'd be like recommending Dr. Gary North here, whose work also anticipated the direction the left would take. But in the same way, North's work is "challenging monographs", with a Calvinist audience versus Jones' Catholic audience.
I would suggest Logos Rising, A History of Ultimate Reality, as it is a very in depth history of philosophy. I found it accessible and salient as it destroys the popular atheist and evolutionary narratives right out of the gate.
This list is fantastic. All the books (that I’ve read so far) are top notch and the comprehensive nature addresses so many different facets of our world today. Bravo!
The only one of these that I've read is mere Christianity TT__TT
Looks like I've quite a few more books I need to read! Glad I've got one or two already taken care of. Discourses on Livy revealed to me just how uninformed I was about a great deal.
Equality: The Impossible Quest by Martin van Creveld is well worth reading.
"Dedication and Leadership" by Douglass Hyde -- a five lecture series on how early stage Communist movements build their activist base and take over other institutions given by a former Communist to a Roman Catholic audience.
Fun fact: many of the techniques can also be found in the New Testament.
Chesterton is the man.
"SJW's Always Lie" is the only one I've read. This is a great list. I'll have to get to Taleb's book next, as it's always recommended as a must read.
Witness, by Whittaker Chambers. The seminal work on how communists subvert a nation from within.
You should consider the work of Dr E Michael Jones, the editor of Culture Wars Magazine. He's been fighting the culture war since Hector was a pup.
Dr. Jones writes challenging monographs on topics of specific historical interest. Is there a specific book you are thinking of? The most salient on the topic that I can think of is Libido Dominandi, but even that is so focused that it really doesn't hit the general cultural milestones that the other ones here do. It'd be like recommending Dr. Gary North here, whose work also anticipated the direction the left would take. But in the same way, North's work is "challenging monographs", with a Calvinist audience versus Jones' Catholic audience.
I would suggest Logos Rising, A History of Ultimate Reality, as it is a very in depth history of philosophy. I found it accessible and salient as it destroys the popular atheist and evolutionary narratives right out of the gate.
Chesterton should not talk about orthodoxy. He was not a Christian Orthodox. Roman Catholics are no Orthodox.
This list is fantastic. All the books (that I’ve read so far) are top notch and the comprehensive nature addresses so many different facets of our world today. Bravo!
I think you meant to include the cover for Lewis' Mere Christianity not Narnia.
Thank you for the recommendations. Adding slowly but surely.
thank you, now it's time to hit the books 📚
This is a good list.
Awesome to see Hayek on this list.