The Short List: The Current State of Knowledge OUR MINDS Jeff Hawkins: On Intell

The Short List: The Current State of Knowledge

OUR MINDS

Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind)

Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)

Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works

Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human

Simon Baron-Cohen : The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism

Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language

MAN

Nicholas Wade: Before The Dawn: Recovering the Last History of Our Ancestors

David Reich: Who We Are and How We Got Here

Matt Ridley: The Red Queen

Dale Petersen: Demonic Males

William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization

Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

Francis Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order

Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nation�s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own

Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray: Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Richard Lynn: The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide [Perfect Paperback]

Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Hartshorna, Kaznatcheeva, and Shultz: The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation

THE WEST

Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans

David W. Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey

Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation

Eric H. Cline: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

THE MILITIA

John Keegan: A History Of Warfare

Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

Victor Davis Hanson: The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

Victor Davis Hanson: Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST

Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World

Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E

Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries

Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited.

Victor Davis Hanson: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

NEOTENY AND GENETIC PACIFICATION (Jayman)

Peter Frost (2008). Sexual selection and human geographic variation,

Frost, Peter (2010). The Roman State and genetic pacification,

Frost, Peter and Harpending, Henry (2015). Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification,

Harpending, Henry (2012). Genetics and the Historical Decline of Violence?

Peter Frost (2013). Evo and Proud: Making Europeans kinder, gentler

Peter Frost (2013). Evo and Proud: Where do those tensions come from?

Also: Ron Unz (2013). How Social Darwinism Made Modern China | The American Conservative

Also: Cochran, Gregory; Hardy, Jason; & Harpending, Henry (2006). Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence. Journal of Biosocial Science 38, 1-35

Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology (Family)

Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe (French) (Families)

ALSO: MANORIALISM AND CLANNISHNESS (HBD Chick)

HBD Chick’s Work on Family and Clannishness (Continuing Emmanuel Todd etc)

In addition to Jayman’s summaries of her work:

An HBD Summary of the Foundations of Modern Civilization

How Inbred are Europeans?

ON GENETIC LOAD (Cochran)

First, be sure to see these blog posts by Greg Cochran on West Hunter (2012):

– Typos

– Get Smart

– More thoughts on genetic load

– The genetics of stupidity

– The Golden Age

– Also:

… Keller, Matthew C., & Miller, Geoffery (2006). Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: Which evolutionary genetic models work best? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 285-452.

THE RIGHTS OF ANGLO SAXONS

Edwin Vieira Jr.: The Sword and Sovereignty: The Constitutional Principles of “the Militia of the Several States” (multimedia only – Trying to find pdf.)

Fritz Kern: Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages

John Blair: Building Anglo Saxon England

Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism

Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom

David Hackett Fischer: Albion‘s Seed: Four British Folkways in America

David Hackett Fischer, (1989). Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.

Colin Woodard (2011). American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.

Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms

THE NATURAL COMMON LAW

Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.

Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law.

Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty

20TH CENTURY CONTEXT

Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism

Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

THE PRESENT CONFLICT

On Racial and Ethnic Strife, the Pull of Genetic Similarity, and Challenges Presented by “diversity”:

Putnam, Robert D. (2007). E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century — The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize. Scandinavian Political Studies, 30(2), 137-174

Also, on that note, see this ranking of the most peaceful U.S. states, in which, Maine (see HBD Chick here) consistently tops out at #1!

United States Peace Index « Vision of Humanity

Krupp, D.B., Debruine, L.M., Jones, B.C., and Lalumiere, M.L. (2012) Kin recognition: evidence that humans can perceive both positive and negative relatedness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25 (8). pp. 1472-1478.