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pmarca's books for understanding The Bonfire Of The Universities
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1 The Captive Mind Czesław Miłosz Amazon
2 Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification Timur Kuran Amazon
3 When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics Neven Sesardić Amazon
4 Intellectuals and Society Thomas Sowell Amazon
5 Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolsoy to Sartre and Chomsky Paul Johnson Amazon
6 The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts Darren Staloff Amazon
7 The Jewish Century Yuri Slezkine Amazon
8 The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity John Murray Cuddihy Internet Archive
9 The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium Martin Gurri Amazon
10 The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to State, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be Moises Naim Amazon
11 The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students Allan Bloom Amazon
12 Public Opinion Walter Lippmann Amazon
13 Foundations: Their Power and Influence René A. Wormser Amazon
14 The True Believer: Thought on the Nature of Mass Movements Eric Hoffer Amazon
15 The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America Eugene Lyons Amazon
16 The God That Failed Richard H. Crossman Amazon
17 The Opium of the Intellectuals Raymond Aron Amazon
18 Folk Devils and Moral Panics Stanley Cohen Amazon
19 The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Christopher Lasch Amazon
20 The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus David O. Stacks and Peter A. Thiel Amazon
21 The Vision of the Annointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy Thomas Sowell Amazon
22 The Quest for Cosmic Justice Thomas Sowell Amazon
23 The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Birth of the Woke Ideology Bruce Bawer Amazon
24 The Triump of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud Philip Rieff Amazon
25 Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 Eric Schickler Amazon
26 The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties Christopher Caldwell Amazon
27 The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics Richard Hanania Amazon
28 The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World James Burnham Amazon
29 The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom James Burnham Amazon
30 Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism James Burnham Amazon
31 The Romance of American Communism: Vivian Gornick Amazon
32 Anti-Americanism Jean-François Revel Amazon
33 The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism Pascal Bruckner Amazon
34 Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization Mary Matossian PDF
35 The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy Nicholas Leman Amazon
36 Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought Jonathan Rauch Amazon
37 Intellectuals and Race Thomas Sowell Amazon
38 Modernity Without Restraint: The Political Religions, the New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism Eric Voegelin Amazon
39 Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future Friedrich Nietzsche Amazon Standard Ebooks
40 On the Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche Amazon Standard Ebooks
41 The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations Christopher Lasch Amazon
42 Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 Adam Hochschild Amazon
43 Race And Culture Thomas Sowell Amazon
44 Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Camille Paglia Amazon
45 The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture Ole Jacob Madsen Amazon
46 Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers Tom Wolfe Amazon
47 Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. Amazon
48 Radical Son: A Generational Oddysey David Horowitz Amazon
49 The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 Hugh Davis Graham Amazon
50 Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein Amazon

Original posts:

  1. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1734341311237595521
  2. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1734633051551068460
  3. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1734670645697687789
  4. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1735081422556410269
  5. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1735720629167591764
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