Form: Announcement

THE CURRENT CANON

(in suggested reading order)

Note that I do not list the usual works of ‘lament’ about the fall of the west. I assume that we all understand that. But understanding it isn’t a means of countering it. Countering it requires we understand the origins of liberty, the constitution of liberty, and act to restore our liberty. As such I focus on how to construct and reconstruct informal and formal institutions that will do a better job of protecting our liberty than did classical liberalism. However, doing so requires that I dismantle the fallacy of rothbardian ghetto ethics, and german rationalism, and instead, rebuild the case for liberty on science and history.

THE RESTORATION READING LIST

Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans

John Keegan: A History Of Warfare

Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey

Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation

William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization

Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology

Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe

Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom

Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism

Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms

Matt Ridley: The Red Queen

Dale Petersen: Demonic Males

Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Francis Fukuyama: Trust

Sam Harris : Lying

Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate

Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind

Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism

Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed

Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy

Hoppe’s Other Publications

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A theory of Capitalism and Socialism

The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

On The Origin Of Private Property And The Family

Property, Causality, and Liability

The Idea of a Private Law Society

The Private Production of Defense

The Right To Exclude,

Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State