Archive - Fathom Five’s Newsletter

Some recommended reading: a shortlist of forty books

A concise reading list of great Western works

Nov 9 •

September 2024

The self-hating age

How oikophobia, the repudiation of inheritance and home, is decaying the West

Sep 11 •

February 2024

January 2024

On G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare’

This great underread novel of the twentieth century explodes the nihilism and victimhood of the modern left

Jan 7 •

November 2023

Nazism: a creed of the progressive left

The Nazis, like the Bolsheviks, were seeking the fabled Marxist utopia

Nov 5, 2023 •

October 2023

August 2023

Utopian idealism and the war in Ukraine

How a liberal delusion is collapsing

Aug 8, 2023 •

July 2023

Capitalism and despotism

How idolatry of the market is ushering in a new authoritarianism

Jul 5, 2023 •

June 2023

G. K. Chesterton and the Ukrainian offensive

As Chesterton warned, the statement of obvious truth has become a modern heresy

Jun 18, 2023 •

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