Every Friday afternoon on my Youtube channel, Kevin Michael Grace and I discuss a new book.
* The Scramble For Europe: Young Africa On Its Way To The Old Continent by Stephen Smith (2019)
* American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 (1978)
* The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker (2004)
* Stalin, Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (2015) by Stephen Kotkin
* The Hollywood Economist (2010) by Edward Jay Epstein
* Serotonin (2019) by Michel Houellebecq
* Finally, Some Good News by @Delicious_Tacos (2018)
* Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (2006)
* Inside Out: A Memoir by Demi Moore (2019)
* Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera by T. Rye Dwyre (2006)
* Who Dares Wins by Dominic Sandbrook (2017)
* The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide (1961)
* Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue (2018)
* The Thieves Opera by Lucy Moore (1997)
* George Kennan: An American Life (2012)
* Talk Radio’s America How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over United States (2019)
* Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
* What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) by Budd Schulberg
* Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency (2019) by Andrew McCarthy
* The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (2018) by John J. Mearsheimer
* The Ten Cents War by Bruce Farcau (2000)
* A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne (1977)
* Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries (1996)
* The Jews by Hilaire Beloc (1922)
* Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America by Paul Gottfried (2012)
* The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt (1932) (Playlist)
* Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
* Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (2018) (Starts a playlist of 38 videos on this book)
* Leftism by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1974) (Starts at 1:40:40)
* Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998)
* Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (2015)
* Joan of Arc by Timothy Wilson-Smith (2004)
* Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs by Jim DeRogatis (2000)
* On The Third Day by Piers Paul Read (1990)
* Iron, Fire, and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones (2019) by Ed West
* The Seven Types of Atheism (2018) by John Gray
* My Father Left Me Ireland (2019) by Michael Brendan Daugherty
* Free Trade Doesn’t Work (2009) by Ian Fletcher
* Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right (2017) by Angela Nagle
* The Battle for the Falklands (1984)
* Shakey (2002)
* Demons (1871) by Dostoevsky
* Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (2017)
* Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity (1972) by John Murray Cuddihy
* Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse (2019) by Tim Carney
* Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise & Fall (2012) by Frank Brady
* At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligence and What It Means for the Future (2018)
* Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities (2018) by Eric Kaufman
* North by South by Shiva Naipaul
* Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis
* The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
* The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953) by Robert Nisbet
* The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion (2018) by Peter Hitchens
* The Once and Future Worker by Oren Cass
* The Last Place On Earth by Roland Huntford
* Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
* Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings
* Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
* The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
* Stanley Kubrick and Me
* The Big Sleep (1939)
* Leviathan and its Enemies
* Rubicon by Tom Holland
* The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
* The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
* Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
* Kleinzeit Part Two
* The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
* Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson Part Two
* Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
* Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge
* The Templars by Piers Paul Read
* Middlemarch by George Eliot
* McLuhan for Beginners by W. Terrence Gordon
* Window on a Burning Man by Tim Newman
* After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World by A.N. Wilson
* When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
* David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
* The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
* Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
* Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark Part Two
* The Tragedy Of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
* Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
* The True Story Of Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander
* Suicide of the West by James Burnham
* 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
* The Bronze Age Mindset
* The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
* Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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