UPDATED FREQUENTLY, MOST RECENTLY ON 10/14/18
Many of the following sources are quoted or referred to in “Leftism“. The rest are relevant to the discussion there and at many other posts on this blog. This is only a partial list of the many books, articles, and posts that inform my views about leftism. I will occasionally add relevant items to the list.
Everything that I have read merely supplements what I have observed in the 60 years since I was first exposed, as a college freshman, to the world outside my small-town upbringing. For a recounting of my intellectual journey away from leftism, see “About“.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND POSTS BY OTHER WRITERS (Entries are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. This is a small sample of relevant items, and it’s weighted heavily toward material that came to my attention in the weeks and months preceding the original posting of “Leftism”.)
Anonymous Google employee, “Reply to Public Response and Misrepresentation” (This is predictably called an “anti-diversity screed” by Gizmodo. It’s also available in “Dissent at Google” at Vox Populi, which frames it more realistically. The “screed” relies on the kinds of scientific findings about intellectual, biological, and innate behavioral differences between males and females to which I have linked many times. For a small taste of relevant research, delivered with customary flair, see Scott Alexander, “Gender Imbalances Are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes“, Slate Star Codex, August 1, 2017. As expected, the author was identified and fired for perpetuating stereotypes telling the truth. For links to many other related posts, see “Leftism As Crypto-Fascism: The Google Paradigm“.)
Charlene Adams, “Genetics, Fear, and the Slippery Slope of Moral Authoritarianism“, Quillette, September 8, 2017
Arnold Ahlert, “The American Left’s Infatuation with Communism“, The Patriot Post, August 17, 2017
———, “America’s Insulated Elites”, The Patriot Post, October 11, 2018
Ravi Ayer, “Are Liberals More Neurotic Than Conservatives?“, YourMorals Blog, February 11, 2011
Michael Bastach, “Bombshell study: Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Government Climate Data“, Watts Up With That?, July 6, 2017 (see also John Hinderaker, “Is Global Warming Alarmism a Complete Fraud?“, Power Line, July 16, 2017)
———, “Trump Has Repealed Hundreds of Obama-Era Regulations“, The Daily Caller, July 20, 2017
Don Boudreaux, “Clemens and Wither Summarize Their Empirical Findings on the Minimum Wage“, Cafe Hayek, January 15, 2015
Michael Brown, “Yes, Gay Activists Want to Punish Christian Conservatives“, TownHall, July 20, 2017
Jack Cahill, “The Suffocating Puritanism of ‘Progressive’ America“, American Thinker, May 2, 2014
Bryan Caplan, “Income and Irresponsibility“, EconLog, March 13, 2015
Angelo M. Codevilla, “The Cold Civil War“, Claremont Review of Books, April 25, 2017
———, “Statism’s Violent Wages“, The American Spectator, July 24, 2017
David Cole, “Resisting the Tranny State“, Taki’s Magazine, August 1, 2017
College Fix staff, “UC-Berkeley Can’t Find ‘Available Campus Venue’ for September Ben Shapiro Event“, The College Fix, July 19, 2017
Competitive Enterprise Institute, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Regulatory State, 2017
Russell Cook, “An Accusation Built on a Foundation of Sand“, Gelbspanfiles.com, June 6, 2016
———, “NewsHour Global Warming Bias Tally, Updated 7/13/17: 44 to 0“, Gelbspanfiles.com, July 13, 2017
———, “Banishing Questions and/or Dissenting Viewpoints“, Watts Up With That?, July 20, 2017
David Corbin and Matt Parks, “When Hell Appears to Be Other Americans“, The Federalist, June 22, 2014
Tyler Cowen, “Academia As a Bastion of Free Speech?“, Marginal Revolution, May 15, 2014
Brian Lee Cowley, “This Report Just shredded Every Myth Claiming Canadian Medicare Is Superior — Or Fair“, National Post, July 25, 2017
Andrew J. Coulson, “State Education Trends: Academic Performance and Spending over the Past 40 Years” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis Number 746, March 18, 2014
Judith Curry, “Alarm about Alarmism“, Climate Etc., July 15, 2017
Theodore Dalrymple, “Taking Out the Rubbish“, Taki’s Magazine, March 4, 2017
———, “Let Every Taboo Fall“, Taki’s Magazine, August 5, 2017
Richard M. Doerflinger, “A Pledge Betrayed: The Obama Administration Nullifies Conscience Rights“, The Public Discourse, July 6, 2016
Dinesh D’Souza, “The Fascist Roots of the American Left“, The Daily Signal, August 3, 2017
———, “Fascism’s Karl Marx: Man the Left Doesn’t Want You to Meet“, WND, August 20, 2017
J.R. Dunn, “RefuseFascism Unmasked“, American Thinker, August 17, 2017
Friedrich Engels, “On Authority” (1872)
Melissa Fauz, “Think a Charlie Gard Situation Can’t Happen in the US? Think Again“, The Daily Signal, July 19, 2017
Bruce Frohnen, “There Is No Benedict Option” (Google cache), Nomocracy in Politics, July 1, 2015
David Gelertner, “What Explains the Vicious Left?“, Weekly Standard, January 11, 2016
Bruce Goldman, “Two Minds: The Cognitive Differences between Men and Women“, Stanford Medicine, Spring 2017
Leada Gore, “13 Alabama Counties Saw 85 Percent Drop in Food Stamp Participation after Work Requirements Restarted“, AL.com, June 13, 2017
Linda Gorman, “Minimum Wages“, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Daniel Greenfield, “Anger Privilege“, Family Security Matters, June 26, 2017
———, “Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules Police Not Allowed to Follow Federal Law“, American Renaissance, July 25, 2017
———, “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left“, Frontpage Mag, September 7, 2017
Richard Haler, “No Voice at VOX: Sense and Nonsense about Discussing IQ and Race“, Quillette, June 11, 2017
Victor Davis Hanson, “Can a Divided America Survive?” TownHall, June 15, 2017
David Harsanyi, “Be Very Worried About the Future of Free Expression“, TownHall, July 21, 2017
Michael Hart, “What Can Be Done About Political Polarization?“, American Renaissance, June 28, 2017
John Hawkins, “If You’re Conservative, Here’s Why Elite Liberals Hate Your Guts“, Townhall.com, July 1, 2017
Steven Hayward, “New Study Explodes Common Air Pollution Claims“, Power Line, June 15, 2017
Warren Henry, “Americans Are As Deluded As Our Elites“, The Federalist, June 26, 2016
Jordan Hill, “I See: Social Justice and Teachers College Curriculum“, Heterodox Academy, July 7, 2017
John Hinderaker, “Left-Wing Indoctrination in the Schools: It’s Worse Than You Think“, Power Line, July 13, 2017
———, “Google Teaming with Left-Wing Groups to Drive Conservatives Off the Internet“, Power Line, August 20, 2017
Dave Huber, “Oregon District to Drop ‘Lynch’ from School Names Due to ‘Racial Implications’“, The College Fix, July 31, 2017
Rud Istvan, “Why Climate Models Run Hot“, Watts Up With That?, July 6, 2017
Scott Johnson, “Our Leading Hate Group” Power Line, June 25, 2017)
———, “The Socialist Temptation“, Power Line, July 2, 2017
———, “The Romance of Soviet Stooges“, Power Line, July 3, 2017
Lee Jussim, “Gender Bias in Science or Biased Claims of Gender Bias?” Rabble Rouser, July 8, 2017
———, “Gender Bias in Science?“, Rabble Rouser, July 14, 2017
———, “What’s With the Emerging Gender Gap in Social Psychology?“, Rabble Rouser, July 18, 2017
———, “Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Prefer Non-STEM Careers“, Rabble Rouser, July 20, 2017
Jack Kerwick, “The Right Changes to Fight Leftist Violence“, TownHall, June 12, 2017
James Kirchick, “Remember All Those Left-Wing Pundits Who Drooled Over Venezuela?“, Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2017
Joseph Klein, “New York Times’ Destroy-Trump Agenda Disclosed“, Frontpage Mag, October 11, 2017
Arnold Kling, “Our New Technocratic Masters“, askblog, February 3, 2013
———, The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides, Washington: Libertarianism.org, 2017
———, “Now vs. Then“, askblog, June 12, 2017
Joel Kotkin, “Why Socialism Is Back“, RealClearPolitics, June 29, 2017
David Krayden, “Report Says Canada’s Socialized Medicine Failing Canadians“, The Daily Caller, July 3, 2017
———, “Multiculturalism Director Plans Segregated Dorm for Black Women“, The Daily Caller, August 4, 2017
Johnathan V. Last, “Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror” National Review, June 15, 2017
Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom, New York: Sentinel, 2008
Thomas Lifson, “Science Fights Back Against the Global Warming Fraud“, American Thinker, June 11, 2017
Jeffrey Lord, “Unmasked: America’s Real Fascists“, The American Spectator, June 26, 2018
Kaylee McGhee, “A Millennial Explains: Why We Melt“, The Detroit News, July 11, 2017
John O. McGinnis, “Why the Academy Will Remain Mostly Unwelcoming to the Right“, Library of Law & Liberty, July 23, 2017
David Middleton, “The World Keeps Not Running Out of Oil“, Watts Up With That?, July 10, 2017
Shawn Mitchell, “Searching for the Authoritarian Trump“, American Greatness, May 8, 2018
Rick Moran, “Blue States Looking to Bypass Washington on Climate Change“, American Thinker, July 2, 2017
———, “Crime Rate Plummets When Phoenix Drops Sanctuary City Policies“, American Thinker, July 3, 2017
George T. Mundy, “Hiding from the Sun: Gender Ideology’s Attack on Truth“, Public Discourse, July 17, 2017
Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1991
Pamela Pareske, “Moral Pollution in Place of Reasoned Critique“, Quillette, October 14, 2018
PBS Newshour, “The President’s Defense“, January 20, 1999
Mark J. Perry, “New Chart Illustrates Graphically the Racial Preferences for Blacks, Hispanics Being Admitted to US Medical Schools“, Carpe Diem, June 25, 2017
Greg Piper, “‘World’s Most Famous Atheist’ Booted from Berkeley Because of His ‘Hurtful Speech’ on Islam“, The College Fix, July 21, 2017
Ramesh Ponnuru, “There’s No Brain Science to College Free Speech“, Bloomberg View, July 18, 2017
Jim Powell, FDR’s Folly, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003
Mark Pulliam, “Americans With Disabilities Act: An Epic Tragedy of Good Intentions“, Library of Law & Liberty, July 27, 2017
———, “A Demagogic Bully” (about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s smear tactics), City Journal, July 27, 2017
John J. Ray, “The American Roots of Fascism“, John Ray’s Documents, May 20, 2006
———, “Modern Leftism As Recycled Fascism“, John Ray’s Documents, June 6, 2006
———, “Leftist Projection and Inability to Learn“, Dissecting Leftism, March 15, 2016
———, “Hitler Was a Socialist“, May 2016
———, “The Contented versus the Discontented People“, Dissecting Leftism, August 7, 2016
———, “More Nonsense Reseearch on IQ. Are High IQ People More Racist?“, Dissecting Leftism, August 1, 2017
——— (curator), “Hitler Was a Leftist” (an archive of material compiled by Michael Miller)
———, “America’s Melting Pot and America’s Muslims“, Dissecting Leftism, September 6, 2017
Eric Raymond, “The Elephant in the Bath-House“, Armed and Dangerous, June 16, 2002
———, “Gramscian Damage“, Armed and Dangerous, February 11, 2006
Fred Reed (a populist, not a conservative), “Internal Secession and the Road to Ruin: Two Countries“, Fred on Everything, February 16, 2017
———, “Oncoming Racial Doom: The Clash of Cultures“, Fred on Everything, June 15, 2017
Jean-François Revel, Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era, New York: Encounter Books, 2000
Christine Roe, “From Cactus Theater to the Met, US Pours Hundreds of Millions into Well-Heeled Arts“, The Daily Signal, July 15, 2017
Francis Rooney, “What Happened to the First Amendment?“, Townhall, July 4, 2017
James Rothwell, “Charlie Hebdo Runs Image of Decapitated Theresa May on Front Page and Mocks London Bridge Terror Victims“, The Telegraph, June 8, 2017
Nathan Rubbelke, “Students Decry UCLA’s Ouster of Conservative Professor: ‘Disheartening, Infuriating, Baseless’“, The College Fix, July 20, 2017
Austin Ruse, “How the LGBT Movement Used Fake Science to Push Gay Marriage“, The Daily Signal, July 21, 2017
Charles Rutter, “It’s All Over for UK Science: University Professors Afraid to Teach Controversial Subjects for Fear of Being Sacked“, Watts Up With That?, January 7, 2017
———, “New Study Claims to Expose the ‘Science Charade’ behind some EPA Regulations“, Watts Up With That?, July 4, 2017
———, “Green Cronyism Gone Wild: It Looks Like the State of California Is Bailing Out Tesla“, Watt’s Up With That?, July 19, 2017
Steve Sailer, “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Again“, The Unz Review, July 19, 2017
———, “The Zeroeth Amendment“, Taki’s Magazine, July 19, 2017
Robert J. Samuelson, “The Administrative State is Huge, and It’s Only Getting Bigger“, The Washington Post, March 5, 2017
Ned Ryun, “The Real Threat to Our Republic Is the Orwellian Antifa“, The Hill, August 27, 2017
Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Culture, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000
———,. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left, London: Bloomsbury, 2015
Fred Siegel, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, New York: Encounter Books, 2o13
Thomas Sowell, Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, New York, William Morrow and Company, 1984
———, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987
———, “Don’t Get Weak“, National Review, May 1, 2007 (reposted at The Free Republic, June 2, 2007)
———, Intellectuals and Society, New York: Basic Books, 2010
Roy Spencer, “Stephen Hawking Flies Off the Scientific Reservation“, Roy Spencer, Ph.D., July 3, 2017
Matthew Stein, “Attacked by ‘Militant LGBT Students,’ Professor Resigns“, The College Fix, July 21,2017
Sean Stevens, “The Fearless Speech Index: Who Is Afraid to Speak, and Why?“, Heterodox Academy, July 19, 2017
Grant Strobl, “This Nationwide Program Is Teaching Millions of Students to Become Leftist Snowflakes“, The Daily Signal, August 14, 2017
Carol Swain, “Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican?“, FrontpageMag (video from Prager University), July 31, 2017
John Tamny, “What’s Wrong With Inequality?” Library of Law & Liberty, March 6, 2017
Jeffrey Taylor, “Leftist Hypocrisy about Islam: Setting the Stage for Violence“, Quillette, July 19, 2017
Timothy Taylor, “The Transition to Transfer Payment Government“, Conversable Economist, July 1, 2016
Tony Thomas, “Surely You’re Crying, Mr. Feynman“, Quadrant Online, June 28, 2017
James Thompson, “Micro-Aggression and Hyper-Sensitivity“, The Unz Review, March 28, 2017
Srdja Trifkovic “FDR and Mussolini: A Tale of Two Fascists”, Chronicles, August 2000
Emmett Tyrell, “When Institutions Go Left“, TownHall, July 20, 2017
Robert Vergruggen, “A Groundbreaking Minimum Wage Study“, National Review, June 26, 2016
Anthony Watts, “A Primer on the Hatred of Climate Skeptics — One Woman Saw the Light and Is No Longer a Leftist“, Watts Up With That?, March 5, 2017
Adam J. White, “Google.gov“, The New Atlantis, Spring 2018
Tim Worstall, “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Wrong Here — Just Paying Women More Won’t Close the Gender Pay Gap“, Forbes, July 31, 2017
Scott Yenor, “The Rolling Revolution in Sex and Gender: A History“, Public Discourse, July 31, 2017
WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES (This is a small sample of the many relevant articles that are cited in my posts.)
“Brian Williams” (media bias)
“Killian Documents Controversy” (more media bias)
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité” (Origins during the French Revolution)
POSTS AT MY BLOGS: LIBERTY CORNER AND POLITICS & PROSPERITY
A list of relevant posts would number in the hundreds, so it’s simpler to refer you to the following sections of “Favorite Posts“:
- I. The Academy, Intellectuals, and the Left (see especially “Leftism As Crypto-Fascism: The Google Paradigm“)
- II. Affirmative Action, Race, and Immigration
- IV. The Constitution and the Rule of Law
- V. Crime and Punishment
- VI. Economics: Principles and Issues
- VIII. Infamous Thinkers and Political Correctness
- IX. Intelligence and Psychology
- X. Libertarianism and Other Political Philosophies
- XI. Politics, Politicians, and the Consequences of Government
- XII. Science, Religion, and Philosophy
- XIII. Self-Ownership (abortion, euthanasia, marriage, and other aspects of the human condition)
- XIV. War and Peace
Not all posts in those sections are about leftism, but a good many either address it directly or deal with its consequences. Posts are listed chronologically in each section, so it’s best to begin with the most recent post in a section and work backwards. A lot of posts include links to related posts, as well as to external sources. Look at the date at the top of “Favorite Posts” to see how current it is. You may find links to some relevant, recent posts in the right sidebar that haven’t yet been added to “Favorite Posts”.
