WHAT TO READ 2021

We close this year with suggestions on what I think TTPers might consider out of the books I’ve been reading during 2021. With one exception, they are available in both print and Kindle on Amazon.

That exception is Libertarianism: John Hospers, the Libertarian Party’s 50th Anniversary, and Beyond, edited by C. Ron Kimberling and Stan Oliver, out in print last month and yet to be formatted for Kindle.

The lead chapter is mine, which TTP published last summer, The Wisdom of John Hospers: A Personal Memory Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.

If you’re interested in Libertarianism in all its flavors, its history and possible future, this is the book to consult.  Feel free to leave an Amazon review.

And if you’re interested in seeing the Woke Left torn to intellectual shreds with uproarious hilarity, then The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness is for you, everyone you know and especially their kids.  For all Pro-Americans, this is the book of the year.

If you want to marvel at a brilliant evisceration of the Left and its secular religion of Ecologism, you turn to French genius Pascal Bruckner.  The link is to his Amazon page.  There you will see his first book that entranced me 35 years ago:  The Tears of the White Man: Compassion As Contempt.

I’ve recently been devouring three of his latest: The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism; An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt; and most of all, The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings.  Bruckner is on our side, that of Western Civilization and Christendom, and his genius, erudition, and eloquence at being so is breathtaking.

A good companion piece to Bruckner is Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds, the madness being the social disease of woketard lunacy.  Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan think it’s the disease’s antidote.  I think you will too.

An enthralling refutation of what our kids are being taught by Hate America Teachers today is Pulitzer-prize historian David McCullogh’s The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. “A tale of uplift, with the antislavery settlers embodying a vision of all that was best about American values and American ideals.”

I’ve been a fan of Charles Murray since he wrote The Bell Curve in 1994.  I’m learning a lot from his recent Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class – “a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.”

A primary must-read of the year is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s extraordinary exposé of The Real Anthony Fauci, one of the most hideously evil human beings  unfortunately alive today.

Another must-read, this regarding the greatest criminal conspiracies of modern times, is Mollie Hemingway’s Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.

I’m finding my friend Floyd Brown’s Big Tech Tyrants: How Silicon Valley’s Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech, and Steal Your Privacy critical to understanding how demonic these digital dictators have become.

In other fields, Erik Larson’s The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do confirms my long-standing suspicions.  As Peter Thiel says, “If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.”

I’m currently embedded in David Sinclair’s Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To.  Can hardly wait to know what Skye thinks of it.

And I’m enjoying famed mathematician David Berlinski’s The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements. “An impressively concise distillation of the wizardry that transforms points, lines, and planes into sheer genius — with enthusiasm, assurance, and mischievous humor.

TTPer Big Dan in Nebraska told me about David Goggin’s extraordinary personal story in Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds.  Truly mind-blowing inspirational.

There’s more on my iPad this year, but that’s it for now.  How about your turn?  Let your fellow TTPers know on the Forum what books impressed you the most, what you learned from the most, this year.

Let me close with suggesting you read the book most important to me personally – my very own The Jade Steps.

I could not be more proud of it, and will be so grateful if you’ll read it and review it on Amazon.  Thanks –and Happy Reading.