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Never Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky

United States of Ideas I (nonfiction)

233 books — 42 voters

Ideas with Consequences by Amanda Hollis-Brusky

The Rhetoric of Reaction by Albert O. Hirschman

The Making of the American Conservative Mind by Jeffrey Hart

KYE reading list

66 books — 3 voters

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek

The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry M. Goldwater

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Top 10 Books to Understand REAL Conservatism

23 books — 20 voters

Why Hearst Lies About Communism by William F. Dunne

Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas Tottle

Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman

Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences by A.B. Abrams

Mainstream Media - Capitalism

5 books — 1 voter

The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)

172 books — 7 voters

The Diversity Delusion by Heather Mac Donald

The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts

Young Conservative reading list

48 books — 9 voters

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“ Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. ”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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“ There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consis There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. ...more ”
― Frank Wilhoit

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