Basic Readings on the Web

This is an incomplete list, so feel free to suggest additions.

On Liberalism and Modernity

• Edward Feser – Blinded by Scientism and Recovering Sight After Scientism
• Edward Feser – The New Philistinism
• Kristor Lawson – Only a Mass Apostasy from Liberalism can Save Us [What is a Traditionalist to Do?]
• Kristor Lawson – The Escape from Uncertainty: a Theory of Liberalism
• Kristor Lawson – The Genesis of Gnosticism
• Mark Richardson – What is Shaping the West? and Autonomy Theory (chapters one and two of an untitled and currently unfinished pamphlet on liberalism)
• Alan Roebuck – How to Respond to a Supercilious Atheist
• Svein Sellanraa – The Nature of Authority

On Conservatism and Tradition

• Lawrence Auster – What is traditionalism? A collection
• Bonald – In Defense of Tradition
• Bonald – The Meaning of Conservatism
• Bonald – The Conservative Vision of Authority
• Bonald – A taxonomy of the Right (addendum)
• James Kalb – Q&A at 2Blowhards: Parts one, two, and three
• Metternich (Svein Sellanraa) – A Genealogy of the Right

On Particular Issues

• Bonald – In Defense of the Patriarchal Family
• Bonald – In Defense of Regional Cultures
• Bonald – In Defense of Monarchy
• Bonald – In Defense of Censorship
• Bonald – In Defense of Religion
• Mark Richardson – Sex distinctions, The family, and Nation & ethny (chapters 3-5 of the aforementioned pamphlet)
• Roger Scruton – Harming Oneself and Harming Others (YouTube video): Parts one, two, three, four, and five

On the Orthosphere

• Bruce Charlton – The Kalbosphere idea (be sure to read the comments, where the term was first coined)
• Bruce Charlton – The Orthosphere it is? Do Ortho bloggers and other Ortho people agree?
• Proph – On What to Call Us Far-Right Bloggers
• Svein Sellanraa – The Rise of the Orthos