The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

 Excellent analysis of the effect of civil rights laws on our history since the 60's.

The Demon in Democracy by Ryszard Legutko

 I haven't been keeping up with this blog... some late entries.

This book is a profound meditation on some of the similarities  between communism and liberal democracy, by a Polish philosophers who has lived through both.

China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon

Eye-opening exploration of the Chinese economic miracle, how it came about, and the challenges it faces. Suffice it to say that China has big, big problems.

Suicide of the West by James Burnham

Conservative classic written in the early 60's that I finally got around to reading.

Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver

A classic on philosophy and culture that I have been meaning to read for a long time. It lives up to the hype. Written in 1948, Weaver diagnoses the sickness in our culture, tracing it to the triumph of nominalism over realism way back in the late middle ages. The best aspect of the book, and vindicating its analysis, is its prophetic nature.

Adios America by Ann Coulter

I generally don't read these types of contemporary political books, but my library had this and I gave it a shot. A very easy read and Coulter is actually pretty funny and, unfortunately, right about immigration.

The Future of Marriage by David Blankenhorn

I had read Blankenhorn's Fatherless America some time ago, and wondered if he written a follow on. It turns out he did, an excellent work on the state of marriage and its future. He's got the best take on gay marriage and its effect on marriage in general that I have read. And his predictions (it was written about 10 years ago) have been coming true since.

The Great Debate - Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin

This is an interesting introduction to the thought of Burke and Paine, in the form of a series of contrasting views between the two men. They did, in fact, meet each other and explicitly respond to each other's thought. Levin shows how the Right and Left, not just in Europe but here in America as well, owes their origins to the two different interpretations of Enlightenment liberalism given by Burke and Paine.

Currency Wars by James Rickards

A good history of money over the last 100 years and an explanation of the dangerous times we live in.

Red Alert by Steven Leeb

Leeb is in the China is going to bury us camp.

The New Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin

Been meaning to get to this one for years...

The Tyranny of Liberalism by James Kalb

Subtitled "Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom,  Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command."

The title sounds like it will be a screed, but this book is a really outstanding, measured criticism of liberal thought (in the original meaning of the term) and how it inevitably developed into an assault on the freedom it was supposed to defend.

The Next 100 Years by George Friedman

This is a fascinating book by a man I had never heard of but is apparently famous. Like most great non-fiction books, Friedman does not rely on little known or possibly dubious information, but simply takes what is generally known and draws conclusions from it. His main point is that the United States will dominate the next century even more than it did the last 50 years, and that the U.S. is still a "young" power coming into its prime. A fast and good read.

The City and Man by Leo Strauss

Three essays by Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides's Peloponnesian War.