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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

B

Babbitt, Irving

– Democracy and Leadership

Barber, David W.

– If It Ain’t Baroque: More Music History as It Ought to be Taught

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

Burke, Edmund

– Reflections on the Revolution in France [freetext]

Burroughs, William S.

– Naked Lunch

C

Calhoun, John C.

– A Disquisition on Government

Card, Orson Scott

– Ender’s Game

Carlyle, Thomas

– On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

– The French Revolution: A History [freetext]

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

D

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

E

Eckhart, Johannes

– Selected Writings

Eliot, T. S.

– Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

Evola, Julius [profile]

– [review] Metaphysics of War

F

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”

Filmer, Sir Robert

– Patriarcha, or, The natural power of Kings[freetext]

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

G

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

H

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

J

de Jouvenel, Bertrand

– On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth [freetext]

K

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

L

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

M

Mackay, Charles

– Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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]

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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)

O

Oakeshott, Michael

– Rationalism in Politics and other essays

O’Meara, Michael

– New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe

Ortega y Gasset, José

– Revolt of the Masses [freetext]

Orwell, George

– Animal Farm

P

Peek, George A.

– The Political Writings of John Adams

Petronius

– Satyricon

Plato

– Republic [freetext]

– Timaeus and Critias [freetext]

Pinker, Stephen

– The Blank Slate

Putnam, Robert D.

– Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

R

Roepke, Wilhelm

– The Social Crisis of our Times

Rushton, J. Philippe

– Race, Evolution and Behavior: A Life History Perspective

S

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

– Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity

– See also: “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)

T

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

V

Vonnegut, Kurt

– “Harrison Bergeron” [freetext]

W

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

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X, Malcolm

– The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley