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Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell

The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Dominion by Tom Holland

Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington

Strategy by Lawrence Freeman

The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis

The Unabomber’s Manifesto

The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch

The Total State by Auron Macintyre

The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald

The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt

Nihilism by Seraphim Rose

Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton

The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt

Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt

A History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer

Assemblywoman by Aristophanes 

The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman

The Future is the Past Country by Edward Dutton

Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West’s by Edward Dutton

Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin

Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin

American Nations by Colin Woodard

A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent

Behave by Sapolsky

Seeing Like a State by James Scott

Coming to Our Senses by Morris German

Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines

A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth

Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris

Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel

Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

Curt Doolittle

Yuri Bezmonov

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis

The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman

The Managerial Class by James Burnham

The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca

The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson

The Evolutionary Psychology behind Politics 

The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn

The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch

After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried

Shadow World by Robert Chandler

Envy by Helmut Schoeck

A History of Manners by Norbert Elias

The Elephant in the Brain by Smiler

The Story of Work by Lucassen 

The Fate of Empires by Hubbard

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray