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Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism (Stanley G. Payne)
Episode 360
A classic study of a bona fide fascist party, back a hundred years ago when fascism actually existed.
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12 hours ago
The Timerman (Theodore Judson)
Episode 359
The latest from the fantastic Theodore Judson, an exploration of the future history of America. And of whether we should ever give charity to foreign…
1 week ago
Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth (Michael Anton)
Episode 358
A brilliant set of engaging essays.
The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2026/08/24/dispatches-from-the-l…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness (Michael Pollan)
Episode 357
A rambling, but interesting, set of ruminations on consciousness, showing the total failure of materialism.
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3 weeks, 3 days ago
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (Rick Atkinson)
Episode 356
How America was born in war.
The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2026/08/12/the-british-are-coming-the-w…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Red State Mars (Travis Corcoran)
Episode 355
A compelling, perhaps prescient, work about future American glory.
The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2…
2 months ago
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch)
Episode 354
A famous, but somewhat strange, book from 1979. Of the decline of American society from the perspective of fifty years ago.
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry (Adrian Goldsworthy)
Episode 353
An excellent examination of ancient Persia, in its relations with the Roman Republic and Empire, with lessons for today's dumb war against Iran, that…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Carl Schmitt)
Episode 352
Carl Schmitt's detailed thoughts, after World War II, about the collapse of the pre-World War I order, and what might replace it--not that anything h…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers (Gord Magill)
Episode 351
An insightful, and infuriating, analysis of the forced decline of the profession of trucking, and what might be done about it.
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5 months, 3 weeks ago