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Sparta’s Third Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

In Sparta’s Third Attic War, Paul Rahe examines the armed conflict that followed, attending to the impact of the internal struggles at Athens, Sparta, and the court of the Great King on its outcome. This is a story of grit, determination, and brilliance on both sides. It examines the ambivalence of the Spartans, it relates the folly that brought the Athenians down, and it traces their ultimate defeat to defects in the policy and vision of Pericles.

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The Meese Revolution The Making of a Constitutional Moment

Edwin Meese III is the most influential person ever to hold the office of U.S. Attorney General – and almost no one knows it. Ed Meese is the person most responsible for the rise of constitutional originalism, which treats the text and original meaning of the Constitution rather than the policy fads of the moment as authoritative law.

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The Insider Threat How the Deep State Undermines America from Within

Barack Obama transformed the U.S. national security, intelligence community, and law enforcement bureaucracies as no other president in history. This is an insider account of how it was done. Even long-time Washington insiders will be shocked at the extent of lawlessness that now passes for normal in America’s administrative state.

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2008: What Really Happened

Over 15 years after the most serious crisis since the Great Depression, we still do not understand what caused the Housing Bubble that led to the Great Financial Crisis.  This book shows what spawned the Housing Bubble, why it grew to such dangerous proportions, and how this created the potential for a panic. The book then details the missteps that triggered the Panic, what caused the financial markets to seize up, and the specific responses that finally returned the markets to equilibrium.

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A Disaster of Our Own Making How the West Lost Ukraine

In 1991, the Cold War ended in a bloodless victory for NATO. After 45 years of a grueling, nuclear-tinged Cold War, communism was dead, Eastern Europe was free, Russia looked to the West for how to build a better, freer future for itself, and liberal democracy and capitalism reigned supreme. But in the ruins of the last war lies the seeds for the next great conflict. Ukrainians are being made to pay with their lives for the arrogance (and ignorance) of Western leaders in the post-Cold War era. Thanks to their hubris, the world now teeters on the brink of a potential nuclear world war over the status of Ukraine.

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You Report to Me Accountability for the Failing Administrative State

In You Report to Me, Bernhardt provides a firsthand chronicle of how the bureaucratic swamp really works and reveals how unaccountable power has quietly concentrated in the administrative state over the last two decades.

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Disappearing the President Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic

Even before a would-be killer tried to murder President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, a clique of political assassins set about eliminating him from public life entirely. Including exclusive interviews with President Trump, Devin Nunes, Dan Bongino, and many others, Disappearing the President is an unsettling exposé of a rogue cabal that will pay any price to annihilate the one man who threatens their agenda.

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War on the American Republic How Liberalism Became Despotism

Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movements they represent and weighs their consequences for the American republic.

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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism

In this book, John Ellis explains how a confluence of discoveries, inventions, explorations, as well as social and political changes gave birth to a new attitude, one expressed succinctly in the Latinphrase: gens una sumus—we are all one people.

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Scientific Irrationalism Origins of a Postmodern Cult

In fewer than two-hundred pages, David Stove leaves the well-established and widely regarded edifice of the academic philosophy of science in smoldering ruins. Scientific Irrationalism is the perfect place to begin any examination of what science is—and what it is not.

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American Leviathan The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism

Governmental abuse by a class of so-called experts has grown unchecked because of Progressives’ quiet regime change over the last century and their replacing our constitutional republic with that administrative state. American Leviathan details how an empowered executive in the White House can move forward to effectively devolve and break apart the administrative state that is the Leviathan crushing the freedoms of the American people.

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The Roots of Liberalism What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civic Virtue

In this book, Buckley tells how, from the stories that comprise the Western Tradition of liberalism, we learned the civic virtues that are the efficient secret of American constitutional government.

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The Israel Test How Israel's Genius Enriches and Challenges the World

In this timely and courageous book, George Gilder demonstrates that the widespread antagonism toward the state of Israel is based – as is anti-Semitism itself – on self-defeating envy and resentment of its superior accomplishments and moral leadership.

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