Conservatism has a difficult road ahead of it in the 21st century. it has arguably always had a rough road ahead of it, being predisposed to uphold, defend and preserve the older and better ways that bought us our current prosperity, and continues to do so in blatant defiance of a predisposed dominant civilization and (seemingly) culture. to change.
make no mistake, our enemies are many and they are slowly pushing us into the sea by securing seemingly unassailable positions in the media, government, education, and every other influential sector of thought and discourse across our nation.
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For many conservatives, regardless of their reasons, it often seems best to simply move elsewhere and live your life with your people on your own terms. but that has to stop.
We have to stop giving ground and stop giving up positions of power in society. we need to stop giving in to the conversation and the flow of ideas for fear of embarrassment or worse.
but it’s not enough to engage in a battle of wits or ideas with boring and dull “weapons”. you must sharpen sword and spear alike, and the best way to do this is by reading classic books of conservative thought, both new and old.
This article will provide you with twenty incomparable works of conservatism: cultural, historical, and critical alike.
These books will not only awaken within you an appreciation for what we have and where we come from, but they will also light a fire in your stomach that will allow you to take the cultural fight to the enemies of decency.
1. The Constitution of the United States
Sadly, I know many conservatives who profess to bleed red, white and blue, claiming they have a deep and abiding love for their country and all it stands for, but their knowledge of what it was founded on and what rights sought as guaranteed for its citizens, unfortunately it is lacking.
If you want to use the constitution as a spear and as a shield in the ongoing ideological war, you must know it inside and out.
There has never been a better time to study our nation’s founding document and, without a doubt, its most precious. It is the penultimate legal document of our nation and indisputably the cornerstone of the great experiment that is America.
It is both mantle and mandate, and a thorough understanding of this important text is the duty of every citizen.
get the constitution here.
2. The Federalist Papers
Almost as important as the constitution itself are the other writings of the men who wrote it, the same men who risked life, limb and legacy to give birth to a nation, our nation.
the federalist papers is a collection of more than 80 articles that explain, expose and defend the intention and ideas of the men who wrote them and incorporated them into the constitution.
The nuance and appreciation you will gain from reading his gathered wisdom and observations is priceless, and will give you a clear understanding of his intent elsewhere in our constitution.
get federalist documents here.
3. the reluctant supporter, volumes i & me
These comprehensive tomes by John Mosby might be the best guides ever written on the subject of holistic preparedness to defend yourself, your family, your community, and even your very way of life from all enemies, including enemies. domestic.
having the right toys and looking good at your bi-annual shooting session doesn’t qualify as preparation, and mosby will but that myth to the bullet in your booster books.
Encompassing everything from physical fitness and weapons training to building lasting networks of trusted teammates within communities that will endure through thick and thin when a legitimate shtf situation strikes, these books are the foundation and starting point for any conservative who wants to back up the tough talk that is sometimes spouted online.
These books are expensive, but the information they contain is invaluable.
4. A History of Money and Banking in the United States
There is no denying that unbridled government generosity, mismanagement of money, and fiscal enslavement of the population is the root cause of nearly every social problem we endure today.
Understanding how banking and outright greed for money on the part of our government is at the root of this national evil is imperative for all conservatives, and this unique work by murray n. Rothbard will take you on a guided tour of the last 300 years of money and currency in the United States.
While it is true that sometimes financial calamities are more inevitable forces of nature than deliberate sabotage, this book will show you, in sobering detail, how the vast majority are the result of devious and ulterior motives concocted by powerful cabals. made up of men in finance and government.
Get a “money and banking history” here.
5. 48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School)
A common problem for conservatives these days is the almost total blockade of academia that leftists have managed to establish.
This has subsequently resulted in the massive warping of historical events and cultural narratives to suit their purposes, with the result that students emerge from formal education with a rational and moral foundation that draws ever closer to their template. standard of what a “good citizen” does.
larry schweikart has taken it upon himself to correct this liberal bias by illuminating popular conventions and beliefs that, while patently false, have been enshrined in textbooks and curriculum throughout our educational system for decades.
Many of these false notions you probably believe yourself, but they are nonetheless sacred cows for leftists and this book will help you kill them in broad daylight.
get “48 liberal lies” here.
6. The Road to Serfdom
This magnum opus from world-renowned economist f.a. Hayek is a dire forecast of the insidious and ever-invasive dangers of socialism, aggravated by tighter government economic control. this is an oft-cited work of political philosophy, and almost unmatched in its importance.
The author pulls no punches as he paints a radical and terribly depressing but nonetheless accurate vision of the fate that awaits all cultures and all nations that allow a greedy and deceitful few to take their economies hostage .
Today, socialism is not seen as the evil it has always been in much of the West, especially the younger generations have no frame of reference for how destructive and demeaning its ministrations are.
make no mistake, the fate hayek warns us about in the book is the same fate leftists today would inflict on all of us, and history provides many examples of what that looks like.
if you want to be able to take your hippie cousin to the canvas on economic policy at thanksgiving, this book is a must read.
get “the path to bondage” here.
7. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
today more than ever, it seems that the united states is completely divided culturally, and divided in such a way that it seems insurmountable. The citizens of the United States are fighting each other over issues big and small, and this great “melting pot” experiment will soon explode.
How did it come to be like this? how can one nation, indivisible, be so radically different from place to place?
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How is it possible that two large groups of people are so convinced that their opposite number is so incredibly wrong as to justify expurgation and violence against them?
author colin woodard will answer those questions and more by delving into an underrecognized facet of America as a nation.
that is, we have always been divided on a continental scale, with each region populated and developed by competitive societies whose differences ran the same gamut as those of today: religious, political and cultural.
The author makes a great case that there really is not and never has been a global, unified American culture, and exploring this claim is both comforting and worrying.
Get “a history of North America’s eleven rival regional cultures” here.
8. Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Love her or hate her, conservative firebrand ann coulter has certainly been on top of some of the deepest and most complicated issues plaguing the country politically and culturally for decades.
His 2006 book Atheist: The Church of Liberalism is an insightful and alarming analysis of liberal ideology seen not as a set of political beliefs, but as religious dogma, a claim that becomes increasingly difficult to refute. as you present your case.
This book is far from the conventional defense of Christianity and Judaism that most people would expect based on the title.
Instead, Coulter argues that liberalism is a religion because it has all the hallmarks of one, including its own scriptures, martyrs, clergy, and doctrine of total infallibility.
It sounds a bit far-fetched, but I promise you, if you swallow your disbelief and give the book a chance, you’ll have a hard time denying the evidence. modern liberals operate with a very real and literal religious zeal that makes their attacks even more difficult to stop.
get “no god: the church of liberalism” here.
9. Ideas Have Consequences
an intensely cerebral and chillingly prescient book by richard m. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences postulates that the present and increasingly acutely felt malaise and decay in Western civilization are the result of the designed, institutionalized, and total rejection of the idea that there is an absolute truth from which we can make all other determinations and evaluations.
The result, the author argues, is the decline and collapse of education, morality, and art.
I cannot overstate how eerily prescient this book is, with the author even describing what he saw as an imagined invasive, implanted media architecture whereby the beliefs, emotions, and even perceptions of the general population could be dictated and programmed by a control group. today, we simply call it social media.
This book is not an easy read, but for a conservative reader with a bit of guts and a desire to really understand the source by which our cultural issues rise to the surface, this is a must-see.
get “ideas have consequences” here.
10. Becoming a Barbarian
Modern leftists and globalists of all stripes would reduce the ties that have held families, communities, and tribes together since time immemorial to ruin in order to produce a more perfect “race” of consumers that is completely interchangeable and completely replaceable anywhere. land where they could reside.
To facilitate this, these devious forces would try to trick us into believing that we are expected to care about everyone, everywhere, equally, and at all times.
Author Jack Donovan’s second feature book on masculinity is a follow-up to his viral hit The Way of Men, and utterly rebukes and undermines this globalist mistake at its very source.
In this book, Donovan encourages us all to think tribally and, he asserts, correctly in determining who is truly the most important to us relative to the people around us and abandoning the brainwashing of globalism in order to live a life of purpose and genuine meaning in and among our communities.
get “become a barbarian” here.
11. The Death of the West
pat buchanan is a titan of conservative thought, and his bestselling book the death of the west details how western culture, not only in america but also in europe, is dying.
The reasons are many, but the effects are the same: a culture turned against itself, an abandoned moral order, and civilizations teetering on the brink under the strain of tectonic shifts in world power and cultural milieu. .
Buchanan cuts to the chase, arguing that the massive and uncontrolled influxes of immigrants from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are having deleterious effects on Western nations.
Written in the early 2000s, today the book has only proven more prescient and even more so as leftists denounce its contents as anathema.
provides a possible answer to the question of whether or not the countries we grew up in and the culture that gave birth to them are mortally wounded.
get “the death of the west” here.
12. Government Bullies
all conservatives instinctively understand that government oversight, frivolous laws and invasive intrusion into our private lives have been and continue to be completely out of control, and furthermore that this pattern of behavior shows no signs of stopping.
we’re all bullies at some point as there are so many stupid laws on our books it’s impossible to avoid breaking at least one every moment of every day. every citizen has a couple of hungry wives waiting for them with his name.
Senator Rand Paul argues that government regulations are totally out of control and that all Americans are needlessly abused and imprisoned by federal laws and regulations that are positively Byzantine in stature.
We are behind in drastically reducing government invasiveness, and this book will provide you with many examples of how widespread and how serious the problem is.
get “government thugs” here.
13. Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats
Author Star Parker tells an inspiring, invigorating, and at times shocking story of how her life was transformed from one of drugs, welfare, and believing the liberal lies continually spread to enslave the poor, downtrodden, and disadvantaged. to one of entrepreneurial spirit. , success and self-determination.
author parker doesn’t mince words, and the book provides insight into the real goals of government machinations and initiatives that are ostensibly charitable, but instead enslave through dependency.
what should nominally be a “parachute” in times of true crisis becomes a crutch that can never be abandoned for those who are used to it.
get “pimps, prostitutes and welfare brats” here.
14. Meditations
A timeless classic, one of ethical and practical advice in equal measure, the private diaries, essays, and musings of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are one of the largest and most readable works of its kind known to the West.
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aurelius writes on a variety of topics, sometimes in short bits of proverbial advice and other times at great length, such as how to deal with times of trouble, behaving with grace and dignity even when slighted, proper loyalty to family, and proper dealings with strangers.
to say that the pressure marcus aurelius must have been under as emperor of rome was undoubtedly enormous is a colossal understatement, but his essential writings on stoicism, ethical behavior, and the management of personal desire in the face of the burdens of duty ensure that this work is as important and relevant now as it has always been.
get “meditations” here.
15. Rules for Retrogrades
politically and culturally, the modern left’s capacity for grassroots activism and mass aggregation of political reaction has far outstripped that of conservatives, of any stripe, for some time.
backed by a seemingly invincible and ubiquitous media and servile educational institutions, conservatives seem to be fighting like fighters; never winning, and on the rare occasions that we do, the victories are either meaningless or short-lived, propagandized into oblivion.
This is because the left has been working from a better codified and more comprehensive playbook for its activities. Authors Timothy Gordon and David Gordon have sought to remedy that with Rules for Retrogrades, a countermeasure and rebuttal to typical forms of left-wing activism that seem so unassailable.
Inside the book are hints, tips, and how-tos for shooting straight and telling the truth, no matter how outgunned and outgunned you may seem, politically or culturally. in this wasted age, rules for retrogrades are the field manual for conducting yourself and fighting the good fight politically.
get “rules for retrogrades” here.
16. Why We Whisper
All Americans, conservative, moderate, and liberal alike, have a stake in keeping free speech truly free, but unfortunately the zeitgeist of the modern age has seen political correctness become a devastating cancer that is depriving of blood to the first amendment through such soft applications of force as depersonalization, public shame, constant rationalization and subjectivism.
if you control what someone can say, you will soon control what they think, and as soon as they are afraid to think using the language of their choice, it is as if they were lobotomized.
authors professor david j. Woodard and South Carolina Senator Jim Demint have penned a searing indictment of the deliberate silencing tactics employed by both leftist foot soldiers and corporations.
Distinguishing between secularists and traditionalists, they stigmatize leftist bias and popular claims of our day on issues like divorce, abortion, sexuality, same-sex marriage, and more.
This book is a fiery call to action for conservatives to turn the tide in the fight for free speech before it’s too late, if not already.
get “why we whisper” here.
17. Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
Conservative scholar Robert H. bork provides a harrowing and prophetic glimpse of western culture in free fall, with the united states in particular suffering such cultural destabilization that its very foundations are disintegrating.
The author argues that the United States, as a nation, is bowing not toward a proverbial Nativity scene, but toward Gomorrah, where devastation and doom await.
The book is written as an insightful and nuanced exposition of a culture in crisis over modern liberalism, a movement and ideology that sells the twin forces of decline that are radical egalitarianism and radical individualism.
If the only acceptable standard is equality of results rather than equality of opportunity and the complete removal of any limitations on personal gratification, then the doom of our culture and our own nation is assured even now.
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Only by resisting the plague of modern liberalism can we hope to turn the tide.
get “bent to gomorrah” here.
18. The City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism
author abram c. Van Engen presents a refreshingly seminal study of America’s national narrative told through vision, expansion, loss, and recovery.
Today’s conservatives long to see the country they love shine as a beacon of morality, prosperity, and liberty once again and desperately want to link the historic vision of “the America that was” with the potential that we all seem to know is dormant, if buried and burnished today.
Engaging, intricately researched and often startling, this is an intellectual book that explores, unravels, and investigates the case for American exceptionalism, both mythical and realist.
While the Puritan vision of the city on a hill no longer applies in the strictest sense, we can all learn something from the author’s careful analysis of the notions and contradictions involved in the myth.
get “the city on a hill” here.
19. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Thomas Sowell is a leading social theorist who needs no introduction to most readers, and his book, A Conflict of Views, examines in rigorous and intricate detail the ideological differences that seem to exist immutably between conservatives and liberals.
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This book is a magnum opus consisting of the knowledge accumulated over a span of 30 years of his career and synthesizes fields as eclectic as cultural and social studies, politics and economics.
In the book, the author contrasts the belief systems of progressives and conservatives, where conservatives are preoccupied with self-selection and self-determinism and the progressive left is often obsessed with equal outcomes at any cost. This book illustrates the root causes of America’s cultural divide in a way that can only do so well.
get “a conflict of views” here.
20. The Abolition of Man
Modern liberals infamously reduce every assessment and appraisal to one of subjectivity, and further undermine decisive criticism by applying ever more intricate and insane qualifiers to participants in a conversation in a kind of perverse Olympics of victimhood.
the unique c.s. Lewis provides an antidote to such thinking in the abolition of man, severely criticizing this open devaluation and dissolution of objectivity and natural law.
when lewis first gave the series of lectures at kings’ college that later became this book, his criticism was only theoretical. today has proven to be chillingly prophetic.
the world louis warned us about, while just an exercise for him, illustrates in clear and startling detail that it is impossible for a moral subjectivist to remain morally consistent and furthermore whole swaths of the population connect in their lives with their own value systems issued to them, wholesale, by the elites of the controlling party.
If our modern cultural relativity has you sick to your stomach, this book might provide some welcome relief.
get “the abolition of man” here.
conclusion
If we want to intelligently argue our beliefs and ideas to the world, we must take care to make our arguments academically rigorous and able to withstand meaningful and sustained scrutiny.
The books presented to you today will form an excellent core library that you can use to strengthen your rhetoric and belief in traditional conservative values.
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