RIGHT-WING LITERATURE GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS

RIGHT-WING LITERATURE GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS

Topics include Western Civ, history, mythology, culture, religion, philosophy, family, gender, nationalism, geopolitics, globalism, Judaism, Islam, war in the Middle East, and immigration. Many of these texts conflict and contradict. Read critically.

History, Mythology, Religion, and Culture:

- The History of the World - J.M. Roberts
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
- The Masks of God (vol. 1-4) - Joseph Campbell
- The Indo-Europeans - Jean Haudry
- The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans - Hans F.K. Günther

- Mythology - Edith Hamilton
- The Greek Way - Edith Hamilton
- The Roman Way - Edith Hamilton
- Gods and Myths of Northern Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson
- Celtic Myths and Legends - Peter Berresford Ellis

- From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology - David Leeming
- The Story of Christianity (vol. 1-2) - Justo L. González
- History of the Catholic Church - James Hitchcock
- The Orthodox Church - Timothy Ware
- The Civilization of the Middle Ages - Norman F. Cantor
- The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity - James C. Russell
- The Age of Chivalry: The Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
- Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth - Joseph Campbell
- The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance - Joscelyn Godwin
- The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant
- The Passion of the Western Mind - Richard Tarnas
- Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism - Bruce Cole
- The Uniqueness of Western Civilization - Ricardo Duchesne
- Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age - Ricardo Duchesne

- America’s British Culture - Russell Kirk
- Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America - David Hackett Fischer
- How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature - James Cantrell
- German-American Achievements: 400 Years of Contributions to America - Don Heinrich Tolzmann
- Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (vol. 1-3) - Paul A. Rahe
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America - Eric P. Kaufmann
- The WASP Question - Andrew Fraser

Judaism, Zionism, and the Middle East:

- A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy - Kevin B. MacDonald
- Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism - Kevin B. MacDonald
- The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements - Kevin B. MacDonald
- The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit: And Its Impact on World History - E. Michael Jones
- Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World - Patrick J. Buchanan
- An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood - Neal Gabler
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy - John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
- The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy - Murray Friedman
- Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency - Patrick J. Buchanan
- The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War - Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
- The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel - Stephen J. Sniegoski and Paul Gottfried
- War and Democracy - Paul Gottfried

Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Islam:

- The Dispossessed Majority - Wilmot Robertson
- The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity - Dominique Venner
- Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age - Tomislav Sunic
- Postmortem Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity - Tomislav Sunic
- Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy - Paul Gottfried
- No Campus for White Men: The Transformation of Higher Education into Hateful Indoctrination - Scott Greer
- Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left - Roger Scruton
- The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms - ed. Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding
- Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education - Roger Kimball
- The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art - Roger Kimball
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order - Samuel P. Huntington
- Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity - Samuel P. Huntington
- The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization - Patrick J. Buchanan
- State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America - Patrick J. Buchanan
- Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa - Ilana Mercer
- Guns, Blacks, and Steel: American Cities After the Civil Rights Era - Paul Kersey
- 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It - Colin Flaherty
- The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature - Byron M. Roth
- The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise - Dario Fernandez-Morero
- Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America - Ann Corcoran
- Understanding Islam - Guillaume Faye
- The New World of Islam - T Lothrop Stoddard
- Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition - Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Jihad: Islam's 1,300 Year War Against Western Civilisation - Arthur Kemp
- White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves - Giles Milton
- The Immigration Invasion: How Third World Immigration is Destroying the First World - Arthur Kemp
- How Sweden Became Multicultural - M. Eckehart
- Easy Meat: Inside Britain's Grooming Gang Scandal - Peter McLoughlin
- Canada in Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians - Ricardo Duchesne
- Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West - Christopher Caldwell
- The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam - Douglas Murray
- Dark Albion: A Requiem for the English - David Abbott
- The Camp of the Saints - Jean Raspail
- Submission - Michel Houellebecq

Gender, Sexuality, and Family:

- Family and Civilization - Carle C. Zimmerman
- Manliness - Harvey C. Mansfield
- Sex and Deviance - Guillaume Faye
- Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female - Ashley McGuire
- Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine - Joseph Campbell
- Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good - Angela Hobbs
- Aspects of the Masculine - Carl Jung
- Aspects of the Feminine - Carl Jung
- Women vs. Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars - Joanna Williams
- Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization - F. Roger Devlin
- The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage - Ferdinand Mount
- The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know - and Men Can’t Say - Suzanne Venker
- What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster - Jonathan V. Last

Old Right and New Right:

- Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century - Alexander Jacob
- Europa: German Conservative Foreign Policy 1870-1940 - Alexander Jacob
- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot - Russell Kirk
- The Meaning of Conservatism - Roger Scruton
- The Southern Tradition at Bay - Richard M. Weaver
- The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver - (ed. George M. Curtis, James J Thompson Jr)
- I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition - Twelve Southerners
- In Defense of Tradition - Richard Weaver
- Fascism Viewed From the Right - Julius Evola
- Notes on the Third Reich - Julius Evola
- Artists of the Right - Kerry Bolton
- More Artists of the Right - K. R. Bolton
- Fascism: The Career of a Concept - Paul Gottfried
- View From the Right (vol. 1-3) - Alain de Benoist
- Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, Just War, and the State of Emergency - Alain de Benoist
- On the Brink of the Abyss: The Imminent Bankruptcy of the Financial System - Alain de Benoist
- Money Power: A Force for Freedom or Slavery? - Isac Boman
- Who Stole Conservatism?: Capitalism and the Disappearance of Traditional Conservatism - Mario R. DiNunzio
- Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right - P. Gottfried
- The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement - Paul Gottfried
- For a Positive Critique - Dominique Venner
- New Right vs. Old Right - Greg Johnson

Philosophy, Metapolitics, and Worldview:

- On the Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Decline of the West (vol 1-2) - Oswald Spengler
- Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life - Oswald Spengler
- Virtue Ethics - Richard Taylor
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory - Alasdair MacIntyre
- Revolt Against the Modern World - Julius Evola
- New Culture, New Right - Michael O’Meara
- Archeofuturism - Guillaume Faye
- The Inner Reaches of Outer Space - Joseph Campbell
- North American New Right, vol. 1 - ed. Greg Johnson
- Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis - Pentti Linkola
- How to Think Seriously About the Planet - Roger Scruton
- The Biocentric Worldview - Ludwig Klages
- The Forest Passage - Ernst Jünger
- The Problem of Democracy - Alain de Benoist
- Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms - Alain de Benoist
- Manifesto for a European Renaissance - Alain de Benoist
- Why We Fight - Guillaume Faye
- Suprahumanism - Daniel S. Forrest
- Fighting for the Essence - Pierre Krebs


Health, Fitness, Beauty, and Aesthetics:

- Beauty - Roger Scruton
- Ancient Greek Athletics - Stephen G. Miller
- Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources - Stephen G. Miller
- In Praise of Athletic Beauty - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy - Michael Squire
- Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty - Nancy Etcoff
- Manly Health and Training: To Teach the Science of a Sound and Beautiful Body - Walt Whitman
- Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest - Julius Evola
- The Power of Beauty: On the Aesthetics of Homer, Plato, and Cicero - Inga R. Gammel
- Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger - Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns
- The Aesthetics of Architecture - Roger Scruton
- Philosophy of Beauty - Francis J. Kovach
- The Vintage Guide to Classical Music - Jan Swafford
- The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance - Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet - Jennifer Homans


Further Reading:

- Adios, America! - Ann Coulter
- The Mexican-American Mind - Ernesto Caravantes
- Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster - Peter Brimelow
- Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America - Jared Taylor
- The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life - Charles Murray
- Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences - Charles Murray
- Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 - Charles Murray
- Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism - James Burnham
- The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World - James Burnham
- Main Currents of Marxism - Leszek Kolakowski
- The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium - Paul Gottfried
- After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State - Paul Gottfried
- The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism - Paul Craig Roberts
- The Neoconservative Threat to World Order - Paul Craig Roberts
- The Jews and Modern Capitalism - Werner Sombart
- Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order - Noam Chomsky
- Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration - Jeffrey Kaye
- Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation - Peter Sloterdijk
- The Idea of Progress - Robert Nisbet
- Heresies: Against Progress and Other Essays - John Gray
- Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age - John Gray
- Waking Up from the American Dream - Gregory Hood
- The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology - Neil Postman
- Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
- The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
- The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations - Christopher Lasch
- Travels in Cultural Nihilism: Some Essays - Stephen Pax Leonard


Recommended Authors:

MAJOR HISTORICAL INFLUENCES ON "OLD RIGHT" THINKING

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Nietzsche
Martin Heidegger
Oswald Spengler
Georges Dumézil
Carl Schmitt
Ernst Jünger
Jean Haudry
Mircea Eliade
Joseph Campbell
Thomas Carlyle
Jack London
Ludwig Klages
Julius Evola
Samuel T. Francis
Ezra Pound
H.P. Lovecraft
Knut Hamsun
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Anthony M. Ludovici
Jean Raspail
H.L. Mencken
Wyndham Lewis
Enoch Powell

MAJOR CONTEMPORARY "NEW RIGHT" WRITERS:

Alain de Benoist
Tomislav Sunic
Paul Gottfried
Kevin MacDonald
Alexander Jacob
Ricardo Duchesne
Jonathan Bowden
Dominique Venner
Guillaume Faye
Alexander Dugin
Kerry Bolton
Jared Taylor
Peter Brimelow
F. Roger Devlin
Greg Johnson
Arthur Kemp
Pierre Krebs
Irmin Vinson
Keith Preston
Collin Cleary
Tito Perdue
Trevor Lynch
Daniel S. Forrest
Jason Reza Jorjani
Isac Boman

TRADITIONALIST / CONSERVATIVE / CLASSICIST / REACTIONARY OVERLAPS:

Edith Hamilton
H.R. Ellis Davidson
Werner Jaeger
Viktor Rydberg
Vilhelm Grønbech
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Alasdair MacIntyre
Patrick J. Buchanan
James Burnham
Roger Scruton
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
T.S. Eliot
E. Michael Jones
Michael Hoffman
Hilaire Belloc
Russell Kirk
Charles Murray
Martin van Creveld
Christopher Lasch
Harvey Mansfield
Carle C. Zimmerman
Robert Nisbet
Richard M. Weaver
12 Southerners
Eugene Genovese
Roger Kimball
Neil Postman
Theodore J. Kaczynski
Lewis Mumford
Jacques Ellul
Yukio Mishima
E.M. Cioran
John Nicholas Gray
Carl Gustav Jung
Corneliu Codreanu
Huston Smith

Note: This list is not comprehensive. A handful of these authors contradict each other and some have influenced the entire political spectrum beyond rightism, but they are all significant.


Publishers, Websites, and Resources:


- The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection: http://www.unz.com/

- The Imaginative Conservative: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/

- Social Matter: http://www.socialmatter.net/

- Culture Wars & Fidelity Magazine: http://www.culturewars.com/

- VDARE: http://www.vdare.com/

- Arktos: https://arktos.com/

- RADIX Journal: http://www.radixjournal.com/

- Counter-Currents: https://www.counter-currents.com/

- The Occidental Observer: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/

- American Renaissance: https://www.amren.com/

- Abbeville Institute: https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/

- Amerika (book recommendations): http://www.amerika.org/books/

- Blog Roll: http://www.amerika.org/blogs/#blogroll

- Mythology: http://norse-mythology.org/


YouTube Channels:

- Granville Thorndyke
- Expanding Overton
- Survive the Jive
- Identitarian View
- Millennial Woes
- London Forum
- NPI / RADIX
- Nacionalista Blanco del SoCal
- Gaelic Neoreactionary
- American Renaissance
- Red Ice TV
- Mark Collett
- Tara McCarthy
- Lauren Rose
- Faith J Goldy
- Brittany Pettibone
- Lauren Southern
- America First Media
- James Allsup
- Xurious Music
- Murdoch Murdoch
- The Alternative Hypothesis
- Jean-Francois Gariépy
- Blonde in the Belly of the Beast
- ramzpaul
- Braving Ruin
- DukeofDurham
- Oswald Spengler
- E. Michael Jones