Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

5 best books like Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (James Burnham): The Dying Earth, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I), Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, The I Ching or Book of Changes

The Dying Earth

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0671831526

I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more.

This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally...

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)

Author	David Hackett Fischer
ISBN	0195069056

This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural...

Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland

Author	Lady Augusta Gregory
ISBN	0901072370

It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Author

Jonathan Haidt

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, education, and our democracy.

The generation now coming of age has been taught three Great Untruths: their feelings are always right; they should avoid pain and discomfort; and they should look for...

The I Ching or Book of Changes

Author

Anonymous

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.

Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning...