Jonathan Swan

Read and understand the times in which we live

Revisado: 03-15-25

Murray has been documenting the decline of the West in each of his last three books. This one in particular systematizes the systemic, suicidal self-hatred of the West—by the West. If you want to understand the main currents driving the decline and dysfunction in Western societies, read Murray’s book. And enjoy his excellent reading as well, which are an enhancement to his cogent arguments and vivid prose.

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Realist Political Theory

Revisado: 02-19-25

Written in 1943 and still very relevant, as Burnham articulates the political theory of what he terms the Machiavellians. Insightful analysis that repays careful listening.

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Outstanding

Revisado: 12-10-24

Hirsch provides an outstanding analysis of progressive education and its failures, despite being propagated with religious fever in Americans education schools. In its place, he argues that schools need to return to knowledge-based learning, the effects of which will be higher learning outcomes, increased equality of opportunity, narrowing of performance gaps between the affluent and impoverished populations, and greater national cohesion. While those who have worked and experienced these schools understand the superiority of knowledge-based learning, Hirsch explains why this observation accurately interprets reality.

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An informed, positive, humane, and spiritual vision to revitalize America

Revisado: 11-22-24

Roberts is not your typical think tank president. His understanding of the ordinary American’s experience, his insight into the problems they experience, and his informed proposals for how to rectify them and renew the American project make this a most important book.

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A much-needed book

Revisado: 06-22-24

Competently-researched, engagingly told, and desperately needed. Shrier’s book introduces readers to the therapeutic and pharmaceutical crisis facing rising generations, who have become over-sheltered, isolated, anxious, and depressed. It turns out that modern solutions to life’s perennial problems have not improved humanity’s plight, but made them worse. This book should be read by all, especially parents, pastors, physicians, and educators. We can only hope its common-sense conclusions find an ever-widening audience.

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Cogent analysis of liberalism that remains relevant today.

Revisado: 10-06-18

Burnham’s Suicide of the West presents a cogent argument for liberalism as one of the expressions of the contraction (“suicide”) of the west. He presents his analysis of liberalism in its essential attitudes and beliefs from a variety of angles and with compelling prose.

While the book was written in 1964, it is still relevant in explaining the phenomenon of liberalism, what many would now call “leftist progressivism.” The present political situation in America is largely a result of the “liberal ideology” Burnham so expertly exposits in this book.

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