The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

An interesting study of the life of seamen in the age of sail, and of why Churchill was partially wrong about "rum, sodomy, and the lash."

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/06/06/sons-of-the-waves-the-common-seaman-in-the-heroic-age-of-sail-stephen-taylor/).

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Of empire, democracy, and mixed government, through the prism of one of the greatest Fathers of the Church.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/05/22/john-chrysostom-on-the-roman-empire-a-study-on-the-political-thought-of-the-early-church-constantine-bozinis/).

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An exhaustive study of the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, written by my father.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/04/11/russia-enters-the-railway-age-1842-1855-richard-mowbray-haywood/).

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Of Sam Colt, who made all men equal, yet found little happiness, it seems, in doing so.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/03/31/revolver-sam-colt-and-the-six-shooter-that-changed-america-jim-rasenberger/).

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A competent history of the Kurdish warlord Saladin, and his battles against Christians in the Holy Land. And of modern distorted and false views of his works.

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Christopher Lasch's famous exposition of the false claims of progress, and of what the alternatives are to an unthinking slavish devotion to "progress." A book that was before its time in 1991, but the moment of which may have come.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/03/04/the-true-and-only-heaven-progress-and-its-critics-christopher-lasch/).

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A classic work about religion, law, and governance in pre-history, and how those structures formed the Greece and Rome we know.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/02/18/the-ancient-city-numa-denis-fustel-de-coulanges/).

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Why the golden calf of Gross Domestic Product should be rejected as a measure of America's flourishing.

The written version of this review was first published in The American Mind, and can be found here (https://americanmind.org/salvo/golden-calf-of-the-grand-old-party/)

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The second volume in Ronald Hutton's trilogy biography of Oliver Cromwell.  And of how England could sure use a new Cromwell as of this moment.

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Of the life and death of the Leviathan state of Thomas Hobbes, and much else besides, as always with Carl Schmitt, including how the end of that state led to the administrative/managerial state and the triumph of destructive, soulless technique.

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Of empires and their fall, and whether America can or should remain an empire, or become just a nation again.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2025/01/21/the-martian-generals-daughter-theodore-judson/)

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Of the Red Stick War of 1813, and of the American Indian, past and future.

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A complete analysis of private justice, both in the abstract and in the circumstances in which Americans today find ourselves.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/12/16/on-private-justice/)

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An examination of Russian Orthodoxy in modern Russia, and of what that implies for the future of Russia.

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A detailed analysis of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the only armed revolt against Soviet Communism, and one nearly successful, as well as both wholly-spontaneous and unplanned.  And, no surprise, of what lessons can be found in it for us in 2024 America.

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A complete predictive analysis of the coming days and months. This was written in June, but only published now, and has held up 100% so far!

The written version of this review can be found at Man's World magazine, here (https://mansworldmag.online/on-the-left-as-scorpion/). You should check out Man's World, in whose pages I have appeared several times, if you have not already done so. It is highly worthwhile.

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The latest book by the excellent Sean McMeekin--a survey of Communist theory and thought, with surprising-to-some conclusions about the rebirth of Communism in the present day.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/10/03/to-overthrow-the-world-the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-communism-sean-mcmeekin/)

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A unique history of an episode that has been deliberately memory-holed:  the massive Left violence in the 1970s, directed at catalyzing a revolution in America. And, as always, what that history means for today.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/09/04/days-of-rage-americas-radical-underground-the-fbi-and-the-forgotten-age-of-revolutionary-violence-bryan-burrough/)

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From a scion of Europe's most famous family, rules for life in the present, and in the future.

The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/08/14/the-habsburg-way-seven-rules-for-turbulent-times-eduard-habsburg/)

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