War on the West

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1. peterspathDec 2025
   I read 52 books this year:

   - Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger

   - Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink

   - Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

   - The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

   - The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

   - When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté

   - Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

   - The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer

   - Standing Strong by John MacArthur

   - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

   - We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan B. Peterson

   - I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek

   - The Holy Bible

   - Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

   - I Am Giorgia by Giorgia Meloni

   - 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

   - The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren

   - The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray

   - The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray

   - The War on the West by Douglas Murray

   - Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro

   - The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro

   - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

   - In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen

   - Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten

   - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

   - The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

   - Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

   - Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming

   - Moonraker by Ian Fleming

   - Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming

   - From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming

   - Dr No by Ian Fleming

   - Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

   - For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming

   - Thunderball by Ian Fleming

   - The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming

   - On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming

   - You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

   - The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

   - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

   - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

   - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

   - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

   - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

   - Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

   - 1984 by George Orwell

   - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

   - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

   - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

   Next year I will read more books of the Russian writers on this list. I enjoyed those books very much.

   After seeing this list, what books do you recommend for me?

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2. everybodyknowsNov 2022
   My take on Douglas Murray, based on first paragraph of the Introduction of The War on the West: ... a cultural war, and it is being waged remorselessly ...

   The man doesn't know the difference between "remorseless" and "relentless".

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