Summer 2024: What I Have Been Reading

Conservatism, Eternal Peace, and American Novels.

In July and August, I read and thought about the history and theory of Conservatism, how some thinkers tried to justify and conceptualize eternal peace and one-world unity, and what makes a good American novel. A good book. I am not aware of any English translations, unfortunately. Non-Fiction Yoram Hazony: Conservatism: A Rediscovery. It’s relatively unsurprising that Peter Thiel’s review on the back of the book states that “the more intellectually forceful challenge to libertarianism comes not from progressives but from conservatives.” Many books written to criticize modernity, or…

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