Reading & Reviews

Recommended Reading

America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn, published by Regnery.  Steyn picks up on trends and concerns I imagine Pat Buchanan stressed in Death of the West, but manages to do it with wit and charm. Europe is in decline , Islam is on the rise and today’s modern Western world will survive largely only in the form of its last great hope, the United States of America. Steyn observes the beginning of this phenomenon -indeed, it is already happening – and predicts its ends through the usual social, economic and political lenses, but also and especially through demographic analysis.

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg, published by Doubleday. I was excited to buy this when it came out last year, because it was marketed as an aggressive counter-attack on the Left through mere illumination of their philosophical and political origins – all with an endearing sense of humor. It more than fit the bill. Goldberg drops a lot of knowledge on the reader – indeed Fascism is a heavier read than some other recent conservative best sellers. That’s partly what makes it so useful to the discourse and rewarding for the reader. It was a thrill to meet the author when he delivered a lecture at Mission Hills Country Club in late 2008. I look forward to fully reviewing this book and continuing to follow the author’s work.

Diversity: The Invention of a Concept by Peter Wood, published by Encounter Books. A spectacular tour de force by a skilled anthropologist and political observer that skewers the illogical, intellectually unserious, self-important and self-defeating thinking of today’s “Diversity” movement. I cannot recommend this book highly enough for any university student or faculty member, anybody who has ever attended a diversity workshop or sensitivity training seminar or anyone who is just plain exasperated by the ridiculousness coming from the multicultural-obsessed, politically-correct crowd.

Many more to come!

Reviews

From time to time I will publish reviews of recently released books. If you have read a book on current affairs or loosely related to politics, and would like to publish a review on Principally Political, please email me at brian.teague.johnson (at) gmail (dot) com.