Jash Dholani
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Ronald Reagan went from a liberal Democrat to a Right-Wing President The book that CHANGED his mind? It was written by a college dropout called Henry Hazlitt... Hazlitt was a se...
H.L. Mencken hated modernity, opposed the New Deal, and was against American entry into WW-II His productivity was legendary: he wrote more than 10 million words over his lifetime...
The Nerd-Jock Dichotomy Is False Let me show you 10 writers who lived like action heroes 1/ Ernst Jünger https://t.co/1Di63Tfy8C
William Strunk, an English Professor, quietly published a 43 page booklet and shared with a dozen students... THEN one student turned it into the highest selling writing guide of...
Napoleon was a master orator But we would NOT know this without Balzac In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches And saved his best insights in a book 10 bangers fr...
Edmund Burke is the father of Right-Wing Thought He wrote a philosophical masterpiece at 27: The Sublime and Beautiful (1757) This book touches on issues that haunt us till date...
James Burnham was a Marxist activist who led psychological warfare for the CIA THEN he took a hard turn to the right Burnham saw that capitalism would die and socialism won't rep...
G.K. Chesterton wrote the best ever critique of feminism in 1910 The book: "What's Wrong With The World?" Chesterton attacked modern mistakes about the sexes and showed why tradi...
The most canceled woman in the world: Camille Paglia In her controversial book Sexual Personae, she attacks liberalism, feminism, and Nature-worship like no other writer before or...
Ernst Jünger survived multiple headshots in WWI Led his unit to impossible victories Between battles, he read Nietzsche in his spare time Wrote notes that became the classic Sto...
Oswald Spengler Thread🧵 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...
When Experts Go Wrong🧵 In 1928, a professor wrote a parenting guide It became a best-seller Then 3 of his own kids committed suicide Meet John Watson: the father of Behaviorism...