Reading List
From Summer 2022 onwards and in approximate order within each category of when I read them. These are the sources that have influenced my thoughts the most.
Books
Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind.
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens.
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Fr. Joseph Bolin, Darwin and Evolution: from a Catholic Perspective.
Donald Hoffman, Visual Intelligence.
Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life.
Balaji Srinivasan, The Network State.
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age.
Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option.
Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip.
Annie Jacobsen, Area 51.
Annie Jacobsen, The Pentagon’s Brain.
Annie Jacobsen, First Platoon.
Annie Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish.
Patrick Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War.
Patrick Buchanan, Where the Right Went Wrong.
Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near.
Erich von Däniken, Return of the Gods.
Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life.
George Weigel, The Cube and the Cathedral.
Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War.
Sean McMeekin, The Russian Revolution.
Sean McMeekin, The Berlin-Baghdad Express.
Sean McMeekin, July 1914.
Sean McMeekin, The Ottoman Endgame.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Mike Duncan, The Storm before the Storm.
Tom Holland, Rubicon
Tom Holland, Dominion.
Tom Holland, The Forge of Christendom.
Barbara Tuchmann, The Zimmerman Telegram.
Barbara Tuchmann, The Proud Tower.
Bede Jarrett O.P., The Life of St. Dominick.
John Stoessinger, Why Nations Go To War.
Andrew Bachevitch, The New American Militarism.
Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight.
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves.
C.S Lewis, The Discarded Image.
Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City.
Aleksandr Solzenhitzen, “A World Split Apart”
Sarah Swafford, Emotional Virtue.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead.
Jocko Willinc, Extreme Ownership.
Diane Walsh Pasulka, American Cosmic.
Ian Hutchinson, Can A Scientist Believe In Miracles?.
Ian Hutchinson, Monopolizing Knowledge.
Archbishop Charles Chaput, Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life.
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Martin Gilbert, First World War: A Complete History
Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
A.J.P Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War.
Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Three New Deals.
Peter J. Leithard, Solomon Among the Postmoderns.
Bishop Fulton Sheen, The World’s First Love.
Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media.
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
Peter Kwasniewski, True Obedience in the Church.
Matthew Yglesias, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger.
Mother Mary Francis P.C.C., Anima Christi: Soul of Christ.
Jeff Wise, The Taking of MH370.
Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope.
Warren Carroll, The Building of Christendom
Warren Carroll, The Glory of Christendom.
Warren Carroll, The Cleaving of Christendom.
Warren Carroll, The Revolution Against Christendom.
Warren Carroll, The Crisis of Christendom.
James Scott, Seeing Like a State.
St. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel.
Douglas Hyde, Dedication and Leadership.
Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World.
Edith Stein, The Science of the Cross.
Brian Burrough, Days of Rage.
Ian MacGregor, Checkpoint Charlie.
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth.
William Breuer, Unexplained Mysteries of World War II.
Brad Gregory, The Unintended Reformation.
Kurt Anderson, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire.
Dom Paul Delatte, Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict.
Anonymous, The Way of the Pilgrim.
Howard Zinn, The People’s History of the United States.
Vernon Johnson, Spiritual Childhood.
Frank Sheed, To Know Christ Jesus.
José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses.
Barbara Tuchmann, The March of Folly.
Rene Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning.
Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena.
St. Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God.
Diane Walsh Pasulka, Encounters.
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God.
Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror.
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands.
Jean Danielou, God and the Ways of Knowing.
Tanim Ansary, The Invention of Yesterday.
Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History.
Rudiger Barth and Hauke Friederichs, Gravediggers: The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
William McNeil, The Ascent of the West.
Gary M. Kah, En-Route to Global Domination.
Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War.
Johannes Fried, The Middle Ages.
James H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe.
Thomas Day, Why Catholics Can’t Sing.
Mark Riebling, Church of Spies.
Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity.
Neil Postman, Technopoly.
Peter Leithart, The End of Protestantism.
Noam Chomsky, The Myth of American Idealism.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Truths: The Future of America First.
Thomas Merton, The Silent Life.
Taylor Marshall, Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church From Within.
Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages.
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy.
Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario.
Thomas C. Reeves, The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity.
Stephen Kotkin, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment.
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire.
Mark Knoll, Is the Reformation Over?
Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning is Here.
Luis Elizondo, Imminent.
Masha Gessen, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man.
Reading Now:
Richard Butler, Religious Vocation: An Unnecessary Mystery.
Colleen McDannell, The Spirit of Vatican II.
Podcasts I Follow
Lex Fridman, Lex Fridman Podcast. lexfridman.com/podcast
Dan Carlin, Hardcore History. dancarlin.com
Mike Duncan, Revolutions Podcast. thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast
P.J. Williams and Abby Libby, Conspiracy Pilled. conspiracypilled.com
Jordan Peterson, Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. jordanbpeterson.com/podcast
Tom Holland and Dominick Sandbrook, The Rest is History. goalhangerpodcasts.com/the-rest-is-history
Darryl Cooper, The MartyMade Podcast, martyrmade.com
Matt Fradd, Pints with Aquinas, pintswithaquinas.com
James Poulos, Zero Hour, podbay.fm/p/zero-hour-with-james-poulos
Charles Haywood, The Worthy House, theworthyhouse.com
Chris Williamson, Modern Wisdom, chriswillx.com
Rudyard Lynch, Whatifaltist, youtube.com/Whatifalthist
Other Substacks
Other Media
The Last Refuge, theconservativetreehouse.com.
The American Conservative, theamericanconservative.com.
The American Mind, americanmind.com.
The Worthy House, theworthyhouse.com
Patrick Collison, patrickcollison.com
Paul Graham, paulgraham.com
Scott Alexander, slatestarcodex.com
General Influences
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