As the left continues its push toward even more radical ideas and policies—Critical Race Theory, redistribution, and pedophilia—it becomes paramount that our side arms itself with the information and arguments necessary to dismantle their inane arguments, to push against the illogical, irrational, and pernicious mental disease that grips the institutions of this great nation. To that end—and because I am an avid bookworm—I present to you a handful of books I have enjoyed that will provide you with the tools necessary to destroy the libs as they attempt to vomit nonsense.

1. Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell has long been a conservative icon. His mountain of work is cited by countless voices in the modern conservative movement, and it’s for good reason. Sowell is brilliant, and his writing manages to make complicated topics in economics easily digestible for a wide audience—even for those of us, like myself, who aren’t remotely as versed in such topics as we probably should be. Perhaps if Representative AOC (D-Instagram) has studied under Sowell, she might not have ended up as the resident socialist moron in our House of Representatives. Then again, she might not have been smart enough to grasp what Sowell was saying and still become such an incorrigible buffoon. You, however, aren’t AOC, and I’m sure you’ll find this book extremely enlightening. Although you’ve probably heard of many of the arguments that he makes, Sowell pieces the puzzle together, laying out all those pesky little facts the left would rather no one knows.

“Neither genetics nor discrimination is either necessary or sufficient to account for all skewed outcomes among human beings. But, given how widely, how long and how strongly each of these two explanations—that is, genes or discrimination—has dominated thinking, laws and policies in various parts of the world, it is no small matter to escape from having painted ourselves into a corner with either of these sweeping preconceptions.”

2. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

McWhorter is no conservative—I’ll let you know that right now. In fact, even while I read this amazing tome, I found myself cringing at some of his passing comments. But we, as conservatives, don’t shy away from those who disagree with us about certain things. In fact, we should relish the opportunity to learn from those with different perspectives. That being said, McWhorter’s position on Critical Race Theory as a destructive religious movement is spot on. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more thorough examination made so easily accessible. While the left reads such asinine authors as Ibram Kendi and Robin DeAngelo, you can rest assured that you’ll find yourself more than capable of dismantling such ridiculous works after quickly working your way through this book.

“Something must be understood: I do not mean that these people’s ideology is ‘like’ a religion. I seek no rhetorical snap in the comparison. I mean that it actually is a religion. An anthropologist would see no difference in type between Pentecostalism and this new form of antiracism.”

3. The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad

Like one of my personal heroes Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, Gad Saad is a psychologist from Canada. Well, not originally from Canada, but I will let him explain his back story to you in his book. Saad goes for the metaphorical jugular of the ignorant left in his book The Parasitic Mind, and he wants nothing more than to prepare you to go all honey badger on them, as well. It’s safe to say that Saad has an idiosyncratic writing style, intermixing his personal narrative into his explication of the cognitive disease currently spreading throughout the western world, but this style only manages to drive home the points he makes.

“Any freedom-loving person should be appalled by this [political correctness run amuck], and yet most academics yawn in complicit apathy and cowardly inaction. They are too worried about their selfish, careerist considerations to weigh in on these matters. They are happy to tell me privately that they support my efforts but ‘please, Dr. Saad, don’t share my name. I don’t want people to know that I share your views.’ Why should people in a free country be afraid of saying what they believe? Think about that, and you will know the direction that the ‘progressives’ want to take us.”

4. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay came to prominence on the right after taking part in an experiment that proved the flawed and political nature of grievance study scholarship, the results of which were equal parts hilarious and disconcerting. So, after such an experiment, it comes as no surprise that the direction in which the academy is moving doesn’t sit well with such people. In the pages of their book, Pluckrose and Lindsay perform a masterful review of several different yet interrelated schools of thought currently dominating the universities. Many on the right often reference things like Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, and social justice as if the public at large knows exactly what we’re talking about, and that can’t exactly be helped—it would be extremely difficult for us to explain these topics each time they’re referenced. But Pluckrose and Lindsay have done our work for us, and after reading their book, you will be shocked to understand the extent to which such moronic postmodernist ideas have gripped the academy.

“Within the universities, the problem [Social Justice] is not confined to specific classes. ‘Bias Response Teams’ are now thought to exist at over two hundred U.S. colleges, and they serve the entire campus by, as their name suggests, responding to reports of identity bias. Although some are quick to point out that they do not have the power to directly inflict any kind of punishment for or control over speech and can only provide ‘education and persuasion,’ this is alarming, if not Orwellian, depending on what is considered bias and what education and training is provided to correct it.”

5. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman

Perhaps no book on the list will make you cringe as much as Trueman’s book. There have been several posts written on Louder with Crowder Dot Com about the mainstreaming of pedophilia on the left, and while some are more than willing to write those examples off as something ridiculous—as if we go searching the deepest darkest depths of the internet to find them—there’s a concerted effort to do just that. Where does this idea of pedophilia as something permissible come from? That question and more are answered in The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Now, this book is a little denser than the others on the list, but it is well worth the read. This topic should be one of concern to any decent person, so it necessitates that we arm ourselves thoroughly against these ideas. The safety of our children is literally at stake.

“As Marx’s thought abolished the prepolitical by making human beings the product of economic forces, so the New Left furthered this abolition by making them the product of sexual codes that are first inculcated when they are infants and children. The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by the abolition of such and the enabling of pansexual expression even among children.”

BONUS: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen R.C. Hicks

If you’re looking for a primer on postmodernism, this is it. Don’t bother picking up something academic, written to teach postmodernism in a university classroom somewhere. I’ve done it. I’ve read them. They are written in a style so opaque, so filled with convoluted word salad, that they purposefully obfuscate the ideas that form the movement. They would rather people not understand what they are doing, so they cloak the ideas in paradoxical constructions and pretentious language in the hopes that the mere appearance of high intellect will prevent the work from being questioned. Luckily, Stephen Hicks has written a well-researched, straightforward book that lays out the foundations of the movement in a succinct manner. The tenets of postmodernism form the structure atop which things like CRT, gender ideology, and the various other grievance studies are built. If you want to understand exactly how the academy arrived at where it now sits, this is the book to read.

“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave reasonably. Having put our passions to the fore, we will act and react more crudely and range-of-the-moment. Having lost our sense of ourselves as individuals, we will seek our identities in our groups. Having little in common with different groups, we will see them as competitive enemies. Having abandoned recourse to rational and neutral standards, violent competition will seem practical. And having abandoned peaceful conflict resolution, prudence will dictate that only the most ruthless will survive.”

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