Jash Dholani

Jash Dholani

@oldbooksguy

The Old Books Guy || Follow for threads on old books, dissident thinkers, and important history lessons || To support my work, get my ebook!

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The Unabomber Manifesto🧵 Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil The manifesto attacks moder...

10 thoughts from Nicolás Gómez Dávila 1. You're not free: Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he's free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. 2. On architec...

I asked Twitter: What are some of the most "right-wing" novels? 20 fascinating recommendations: 1. Lord of the Rings 2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 3. Count of Monte Cristo 4. Jo...

12 thoughts from Man and Technics (1931) by Oswald Spengler 1. Utopia v/s Boredom. Some imagine that the best possible future is one without war, inequality, danger (bid farewell...

Vizi Andrei(@viziandrei), the man who designs for Naval, has made a carousel out of my tweets It's brilliant Sharing with you all here A visual thread👇🏻 1/ How to Beat Procrast...

10 concepts that explain the modern world 1. Parkinson’s Law: Companies become bigger and worse over time. Clerks manufacture work for each other as overall capacity dips. When Br...

The most canceled woman in the world: Camille Paglia In her controversial book Sexual Personae, she attacks liberalism, feminism, & nature worship like no other writer before or s...

Oswald Spengler Threadđź§µ In 1931, Spengler published one of the most idea-dense books of all time: Man and Technics It packs hundreds of interesting ideas in 52 pages Top 13 ins...

As the world gets crazier, there is one name you will hear more often: Nicolás Gómez Dávila He wrote 1 book Only published 100 copies But he's the best teacher on why societies...

The Unabomber Manifesto🧵 Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil The manifesto attacks moder...

Tocqueville's grandfather was lawyer to the King during the French Revolution With the king, he was beheaded too... Decades later, Tocqueville crossed the sea, toured the world a...

Ayn Rand sold 37 million books BUT did not speak a word of English till 21 Her sprawling novels were rejected by all until one editor risked his job to publish The Fountainhead T...