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A Primer on Neo-Reaction

Colin Redemer

Xenosystemsby nick landpassage, 338 pages, $39.95 I read Nick Landโ€™s Xenosystems on a sunny afternoon in California as Los Angeles burned to the ground. Wake up, log onto X.com,...

Zoning Outย 

Colin Redemer

In an era in which the American dream slips ever further from the grasp of the common man, these two books seek the causes. What are the roots, both authors ask, of the...

Is Vivek Right About America?

Colin Redemer

On the second day of Christmas, Vivek Ramaswamy gave to America a diagnosis: We have a culture problem. โ€œOur American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too...

Searching for Our Plot of Innocence

Colin Redemer

All Desire Is a Desire for Beingby renรฉ girard, selected by cynthia l. havenpenguin classics, 336 pages, $18 I probably took a bullet to the head because of the...

To Desire Like a Little Child

Colin Redemer

Minor Indignitiesby trevor cribben merrill wiseblood books, 233 pages, $15.80 Milan Kundera once admitted in a conversation with Renรฉ Girard that if he had read the latterโ€™s Deceit, Desire and the...

Raw Deal

Colin Redemer

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed Americaโ€™s Working Men and Women by batya ungar-sargon encounter, 264 pages, $32.99 Of the two million waiters and waitresses working in America,โ€ Batya...

Conservatives for Labor

Colin Redemer

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by jane mcalevey harpercollins, 304 pages, $16.99 Ten years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, HarperCollins shut down...