Recommended Reading List
Foundational Studies
Title | Author |
On the Soul | Aristotle |
Metaphysics | Aristotle |
Politics | Aristotle |
The Art of Rhetoric | Aristotle |
The Athenian Constitution | Aristotle |
Aristotle: East and West | David Bradshaw |
De Officiis (On Duties or On Obligations) | Cicero |
The De Legibus (On the Laws) | Cicero |
De re publica (On the Commonwealth) | Cicero |
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
The Virtue of Nationalism | Yoram Hazony |
The Cave and the Light | Arthur Herman |
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 | Jonathan I. Israel |
Enlightenment Contest: Philosophy, Modernity and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 | Jonathan I. Israel |
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights 1750-1790 | Jonathan I. Israel |
The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution and Democratic Defeat 1748-1830 | Jonathan I. Israel |
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana | Russell Kirk |
The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful United and Free | Rich Lowry |
Byzantine Theology | John Meyendorff |
The Republic | Plato |
Theory of Forms | Plato |
Five Regimes | Plato |
Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts:
How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers |
Carl J. Richard |
On Politics | Alan Ryan |
The Kingdom of God Is Within You | Leo Tolstoy |
A Confession | Leo Tolstoy |
Neo-Liberal Ideology: History, Concepts and Polices | Rachel S. Turner |
Fictional Foundational Studies
Title | Author |
The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
Inferno | Dante |
Pugatorio | Dante |
Paradiso | Dante |
The Devils | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The Iliad | Homer |
The Odyssey | Homer |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
The Prince | Machiavelli |
The Discourses | Machiavelli |
The Will to Power | Friedrich Nietzsche |
The Birth of Tragedy | Friedrich Nietzsche |
The Anti-Christ | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche |
1984 | George Orwell |
Geopolitics
Title | Author |
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire | Alex Abella |
Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-Century | Jacques Attali |
None Dare Call It Conspiracy | Gary Allen |
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s campaign to Create a Master Race | Edwin Black |
War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier | Smedley Darlington Butler |
Between Two Ages | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
The Grand Chessboard | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Suicide of a Superpower | Patrick J. Buchanan |
Decline of the West | Patrick J. Buchanan |
The Turning Point | Frjitof Capra |
Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics |
Miles Copeland |
Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam | Mark Curtis |
The Next Million Years | Charles Galton Darwin |
Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam | Robert Dreyfuss |
Fourth Political Theory | Alexander Dugin |
Full Spectrum Dominance | F. William Engdahl |
Lost Hegemon | F. William Engdahl |
Eco-science: Population, Resources, Environment | Paul R. Ehrlich |
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group | Daniel Estulin |
Tavistock Institute | Daniel Estulin |
Shadow Masters | Daniel Estulin |
Transevolution: The Coming Age of Human Deconstruction | Daniel Estulin |
The Aquarian Conspiracy | Marilyn Ferguson |
Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story | Peter Fitzgerald |
Theory and Praxis | Jurgen Habermas |
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty | Collier & Horowitz |
The Clash of Civilizations | Samuel P. Huntington |
Brave New World Revisited | Aldous Huxley |
On Living in a Revolution | Julian Huxley |
Philosophy of the United Nations | Julian Huxley |
The Pentagon’s Brain | Annie Jacobsen |
Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 | Rosa Koire |
Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach to Regime Change | Andrew Korybko |
Untold History of the United States | Peter Kuznick |
Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer | Dr. John C. Lilly |
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes | Andrew M. Lobachevski |
Rule by Secrecy | Jim Marrs |
The Problem of Generations | Karl Mannheim |
Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Domination Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Capitalist West | Malachi Martin |
Orwell & Politics | George Orwell |
Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State | David Price |
Tragedy & Hope | Carroll Quigley |
The Anglo-American Establishment | Carroll Quigley |
Weapons Systems and Political Stability | Carroll Quigley |
The Evolution of Civilizations | Carroll Quigley |
The Neoconservative Threat to World Order | Paul Craig Roberts |
Proofs of a Conspiracy: Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe | John Robison |
Memoirs | David Rockefeller |
The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists | Colin A. Ross |
Man Unfolding | Dr. Jonas Salk |
The Imperial Presidency | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
The Fourth Industrial Revolution | Klaus Schwab |
The Naked Communist | W. Cleon Skousen |
The Naked Capitalist | W. Cleon Skousen |
The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn |
Warning to the West | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn |
Wall Street & The Russian Revolution | Dr. Richard Spence |
The Decline of the West | Oswald Spengler |
The Fourth Turning | William Strauss |
New World Order: A Strategy for Imperialism | Sean Stone |
National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union | Antony C. Sutton |
America’s Secret Establishment | Antony C. Sutton |
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government | David Talbot |
Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games | Eric Walberg |
The New World Order | H G Wells |
The Open Conspiracy | H G Wells |
American Studies
Title | Author |
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK | John R. Bohrer |
Where the Right Went Wrong | Patrick J. Buchanan |
A Republic, Not an Empire | Patrick J. Buchanan |
The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority | Patrick J. Buchanan |
War is a Racket | Smedley Darlington Butler |
Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow |
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power | Robert Dallek |
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Post-war American Liberalism | Dominic Dandbrook |
Pure Goldwater | John W. Dean |
Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Post-war Liberalism | Thomas W. Devine |
JFK and the Unspeakable | James W. Douglass |
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy | M. Stanton Evans |
Richard Nixon: The Life | John A. Farrell |
The Ascent of George Washington | John Ferling |
Jefferson and Hamilton | John Ferling |
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 | John Ferling |
The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon 1952-1961 | Irwin F. Gellman |
The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation | Steven M. Gillon |
The Republicans: A History of the Grand Old Party |
Lewis L. Gould |
I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952 | John Robert Greene |
Ross Perot: The Man Behind the Myth | Ken Gross |
Conscience of a Conservative | Barry Goldwater |
The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton |
The Case for Trump | Victor Davis Hanson |
The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order 1964-1980 | Steven F. Hayward |
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989 | Steven F. Hayward |
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s | William Hitchcock |
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary | Fred Kaplan |
Profiles in Courage | John F. Kennedy |
The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft | Russell Kirk |
JFK and the Reagan Revolution | Lawrence Kudlow |
The Year of the People | Eugene J. McCarthy |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century | Robert W. Merry |
Unstoppable: Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State | Ralph Nader |
The Ralph Nader Reader | Ralph Nader |
The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign | Thomas Oliphant |
RFK: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream | Jerry Oppenheimer |
The Revolution: A Manifesto | Ron Paul |
The Case Against Socialism | Rand Paul |
Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America | Rand Paul |
Tea Party Goes to Washington | Rand Paul |
Barry Goldwater: Before the Storm | Rick Perlstein |
United We Stand | Ross Perot |
Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why NAFTA Must be Stopped | Ross Perot |
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
Robert Kennedy and His Times | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936 Vol.III | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
The Coming New Deal: 1933-1935 Vo. II | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933 Vol. I | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
JFK: A Thousand Days | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
Robert Kennedy and His Times | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left | Dinesh D’Souza |
JFK: Conservative | Ira Stoll |
The Old Regime and the Revolution | Alexia de Tocqueville |
On Democracy | Alexia de Tocqueville |
Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All | Craig Shirley |
Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years 1976-1970 |
Craig Shirley |
Jeb! And the Bush Crime Family | Roger Stone |
The Clintons’ War on Women | Roger Stone |
Three’s a Crowd: The Dynamics of Third Parties, Ross Perot and Republican Resurgence | Walter Stone |
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography | Webster G. Tarpley |
Just Too Weird: Bishop Romney and the Mormon Takeover of America |
Webster G. Tarpley |
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson |
Gordon S. Wood |
Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition and Party in US Foreign Policy | Clarence E. Wunderlin |
British Studies
Title | Author |
The Bad Boys of Brexit | Arron Banks |
The Benn Diaries | Tony Benn |
Enoch Powell Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain | Corthorn |
Flying Free | Nigel Farage |
The Purple Revolution | Nigel Farage |
Revolt of the Right: Explaining the Support for the Radical Right in Britain | Matthew J. Goodwin |
New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party |
Matthew J. Goodwin |
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy | Matthew J. Goodwin |
Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave The European Union | Matthew J. Goodwin |
Like the Roman: The Life and Times of Enoch Powell | Simon Heffer |
The Cameron Delusion | Peter Hitchens |
The Abolition of Britain | Peter Hitchens |
No Go Zones | Raheem Kassam |
European Studies
Title | Author |
De Gaulle: The Man Who Defined Six US Presidents | Douglas Boyd |
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle | Julian Jackson |
Putinism | Walter Laqueur |
Rebuilding Russia | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn |
The Putin Interviews | Oliver Stone |
The War Against Putin | Marcus S. King |
The War Against | Marcus S. King |
Australian Studies
Title | Author |
The Kingdom of Shylock | Frank Anstey |
Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography | Blanche D’Alpuget |
Spooked: The Truth about Intelligence in Australia | Daniel Baldino |
Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader | Troy Bramston |
The Whitlam Legacy | Troy Bramston |
The Enigmatic Mr. Deakin | Judith Brett |
The Third Man | Don Chipp |
Keep the Bastards Honest | Don Chipp |
The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image | James Curran |
Unholy Fury: Whitlam and Nixon at War | James Curran |
Latham and Abbott | Michael Duffy |
John Curtin’s War: The Coming War | John Edwards |
John Curtin’s War: Triumph and Decline | John Edwards |
Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirfronted Tony Abbott |
Wayne Errington |
Beazley | Peter FitzSimons |
Malcolm Fraser | Malcom Fraser |
Dangerous Allies | Malcolm Fraser |
Abbott’s Right | Damien Freeman |
Menzies’ Child: The Liberal Party of Australia 1944-1994 | Gerard Henderson |
Gough Whitlam: His Time | Jenny Hocking |
The Dismissal Dossier | Jenny Hocking |
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History | Jenny Hocking |
Lazarus Rising | John Howard |
Menzies and the Liberals – Into the Next Century | Nicholas Frank Hugo |
Afterwords: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches | Paul Keating |
The End of Certainty | Paul Kelly |
The Hawke Ascendancy | Paul Kelly |
The March of Patriots | Paul Kelly |
Triumph and Demise | Paul Kelly |
The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom 1788-1860 | David Kemp |
A Free Country: Australians Search for Utopia 1861-1901 | David Kemp |
A Democratic Nation 1901-1925 | David Kemp |
Loner: Inside a Labor Tragedy | Bernard Lagan |
I Remember… | Jack Lang |
The Big Fella | Jack Lang |
Project Republic | Benjamin T. Jones |
Not Dead Yet: What Future for Labor? | Mark Latham |
Civilizing Global Capital: New Thinking for Australian Labor | Mark Latham |
Outsiders | Mark Latham |
The Latham Diaries | Mark Latham |
The Political Bubble | Mark Latham |
Unfinished Business | David Love |
Keating | Kerry O’Brien |
The Road to Ruin | Niki Savva |
Quarterly Essay Vol.15: Latham’s World: The New Politics of the Outsiders | Margaret Simons |
Well May We Say…The Speeches that Made Australia | Sally Warhaft |
National Insecurity | Linda Weiss |
Second World War Studies
Title | Author |
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives | Alan Bullock |
Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War | Patrick J. Buchanan |
Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connection to Hitler’s Holocaust | Edwin Black |
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation | Edwin Black |
The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between The Third Reich and Jewish Palestine | Edwin Black |
Warlords | Simon Berthon |
The Second World War 1: The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
The Second World War 2: The Finest Hour | Winston Churchill |
The Second World War 3: The Grand Alliance | Winston Churchill |
The Second World War 4: The Hinge of Fate | Winston Churchill |
The Second World War 5: The Closing the Ring | Winston Churchill |
The Second World War 6: Triumph and Tragedy | Winston Churchill |
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression | Stephanne Courtois |
Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism | Stephen Dorril |
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler | Simon Dunstan |
Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government | M. Stanton Evans |
The Principles of Communism | Fredrich Engels |
The General Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved | Johnathan Fenby |
Road to Serfdom | Fredrich Hayek |
Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
Zweites Buch | Adolf Hitler |
Hitler’s Letters and Notes | Adolf Hitler |
Hitler’s Table Talk | Adolf Hitler |
The Speeches of Adolf Hitler 1921-1941 | Adolf Hitler |
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship | Adolf Hitler |
My New Order | Adolf Hitler |
Hitler’s Table Talk | Adolf Hitler |
Menzies at War | Anne Henderson |
Hitler | Ian Kershaw |
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report | Walter C. Langer |
The Doctrine of Fascism | Benito Mussolini |
My Life | Benito Mussolini |
Mussolini | R.J.B. Bosworth |
Hess, Hitler and Churchill | Peter Padfield |
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors – Stalin, The Nazis and the West | Laurence Rees |
The Nazis: A Warning from History | Laurence Rees |
The Rise of the Fourth Reich | Jim Marrs |
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership | Andrew Roberts |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany | William L. Shirer |
Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley & British Fascism | Stephen Dorril |
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler Wall Street and FDR |
Anthony C. Sutton |
The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors | Herbert Romerstein |
Target Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton | Robert K. Wilson |
The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Otto Guensche and Heinze Linge, Hitler’s Closest Personal Aides | Matthias Uhl |
Cultural Studies
Title | Author |
Propaganda | Edward Bernays |
Crystallizing Public Opinion | Edward Bernays |
The Closing of the American Mind | Allan Bloom |
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland | Christopher R. Browning |
Manufacturing Consent | Noam Chomsky |
The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions | Mark Dice |
Hollywood Propaganda: How TV, Movies and Music Shape Our Culture | Mark Dice |
Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True | Mark Dice |
Pornland | Gails Dines |
The Discovery of the Unconscious | Henri F. Ellenberger |
Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Franki |
Dumbing Us Down | John Taylor Gatto |
Weapons of Mass Instruction | John Taylor Gatto |
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom | Jonathan Haidt |
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt |
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure | Jonathan Haidt |
The Rage Against God | Peter Hitchens |
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell | Aldous Huxley |
Brave New World Revisited | Aldous Huxley |
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America | Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt |
Collected Works of C.G Jung: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious | Carl Jung |
12 Rules for Life | Jordan Peterson |
Maps of Meaning | Jordan Peterson |
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life | Joseph Ledoux |
The Strange Death of Europe | Paul Keating |
The Madness of Crowds | Douglas Murray |
The Hawke Ascendancy | Douglas Murray |
Reflections of a Russian Statesman | Petrovich Pobyedonostsev |
How to Watch TV News | Neil Postman |
Straight & Crooked Thinking | Neil Postman |
Amusing Ourselves to Death | Neil Postman |
Scientific Outlook | Bertrand Russell |
Impact of Science on Society | Bertrand Russell |
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters | Frances Stonor Saunders |
The Vital Centre: Politics of Freedom | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
Primetime Propaganda | Ben Shapiro |
John Courtney Murray, Time/Life & The American Proposition: The CIA Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church | David Wemhoff |
Economic Studies
Title | Author |
The Creature from Jekyll Island | G. Edward Griffin |
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman | John Perkins |
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein |
Communism & Nationalism: Karl Marx vs Fredrich List | Roman Szporluk |
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism | Paul Craig Roberts |
Kicking Away the Ladder | Ha-Joon Chang |
The Great Betrayal | Patrick J. Buchanan |
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke | Elizabeth Warren |
The Longest Decade | George Megalogenis |
The Australian Moment | George Megalogenis |
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy | Thomas K. McCraw |
The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
Report on the Subject of Manufactures | Alexander Hamilton |
Outlines of American Political Economy | Friedrich List |
National System of Political Economy | Friedrich List |
The Papers of Henry Clay | Henry Clay |
Hamilton’s Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition | Michael Lind |
What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America’s Greatest President | Michael Lind |
End the Fed | Ron Paul |
The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia | John Gascoigne |