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.
Source date (UTC): 2019-11-19 14:57:00 UTC