Politically Incorrect Authors
The great books according to Kenneth Anderson. I always read Steyn but have never read AA Gill. [There's another author for the stack.] Who else could make the politically incorrect list?Some nominees:
- Tom Wolfe
- Tom Sharpe
- Michael Crichton
- Daniel Silva
- Mark Helprin
- Ben Elton
Certainly Joel Rosenberg and Tom Clancy (is he still writing?).
ReplyDeleteThomas Berger
ReplyDeleteJonah Goldberg
ReplyDeleteVince Flynn
ReplyDeleteVince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series
ReplyDeleteAlexandr Solzhenitsyn
ReplyDeleteP.J. O'Rourke
ReplyDeleteAyn Rand. Robert Heinlein. L. Neil Smith.
ReplyDeleteAdam Smith
ReplyDeleteClausewitz
Mahan
Machiavelli
Burke
Hayek
I could go on
Oriana Fallaci, may she rest in peace
ReplyDeleteGeorge Orwell (Eric Blair)
ReplyDeleteArthur Koestler
Winston Churchill
Friedrich Hayek
Thomas Sowell's "Inside American Education" can get you excommunicated from any teaching credential program. He's the NEA's Salman Rushdie.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Fitzhugh
ReplyDeleteGeorge Macdonald Fraser (R.I.P.)
ReplyDeleteRudyard Kipling
ReplyDeleteCharles Murray (and not just "The Bell Curve."
ReplyDeleteSteve Sailer
Charles McCarry
ReplyDeleteJohn Ringo
ReplyDeleteMichael Z. Williamson
Jerry Pournelle? "...when I was a lad I was thought hopelessly radical because I thought the law ought to be color blind; now that I am a bit older I am considered a hopeless reactionary because I believe the law ought to be color blind. Ah well."
ReplyDeleteRobert G. Barrett. The funniest Australian writer ever.
ReplyDeleteIs that Joel C. Rosenberg or just Joel Rosenberg?
ReplyDeleteAlthough both qualify, I guess.
You will find Nathaniel Hawthorne, along with many other conservative authors, in Russell Kirk's The Portable Conservative Reader.
ReplyDeleteJedediah Bila
ReplyDeletePaul Johnson
ReplyDeleteRobert Ludlum
ReplyDeleteNeal Stephenson, not because he's a conservative, but because he tends to see and describe the world as it is, and gives short shrift to PC thinking.
ReplyDeleteWonderful. My reading list just grew by leaps and bounds! Time to fire up the kindle!!
ReplyDeleteRobert A. Heinlen
ReplyDelete"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral-- doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
Duncan Williams, "Trousered Apes"
ReplyDelete"Bryan F Griffin" (seemingly a nom de plume; some say its Lewis Lapham, but that seems impossible based on the content)'"Panic Among the Philistines"
Colin S. Gray; Keith Payne
ReplyDeleteGene Wolfe
ReplyDeleteOrson Scott Card
ReplyDeleteHarold Bloom
ReplyDeleteMencken
Chesterton
Christopher Hitchens
Nietzsche
ReplyDeleteG.K. Chesterton, C.S.Lewis, Dorothy Sayer, Larry McMurtry, Hilaire Belloc, Bernard Cornwell, George MacDonald Fraser
ReplyDeleteMark Twain!
ReplyDeleteRobert Heinlein also said:
ReplyDelete• Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck."
Another Sci-fi author -
ReplyDeleteKristine Kathryn Rusch the Retrieval Artist Series. It's being re-released and she has a website for updates and the book order (starting with The Disappeared)
The Retrieval Artist Web Site
Enjoy.
Florence King
ReplyDeleteAyaan Hirsi Ali
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
ReplyDeleteAdam Smith, a great author who is under-read and most definitely un-PC.
ReplyDeleteJohn Ringo
ReplyDeleteR.A. Lafferty
ReplyDeleteAndrew Klavan's recent novels.
ReplyDeleteLots of Baen authors, Ringo and Williamson have already been mentioned. You could also add Sarah Hoyt, Dave Freer, Tom Kratman and Larry Correia to that list for sure. Probably som eothers too
ReplyDeleteVictor Davis Hanson, David Kahane
ReplyDeleteMark Goldblatt
ReplyDeleteFrederic Bastiat
ReplyDeleteAlexis de Tocqueville
Sun Tzu
ReplyDeleteAristotle
Tacitus
the Sagas of Icelanders
the Secret History of the Mongols
Ibn Khaldun
Machiavelli
Guicciardini
Spinoza
Locke
Charles MacKay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions
I wished I had avoided anything written after ww2, until I had a passing acquaintance with at least a few of the above.
Yes! Let me vigorously second A.A.Gill. I can even delight in his reviews of TV shows I never expect to view here in New Mexico, and in his restaurant reviews for impossibly expensive retaurants in the UK where I no longer make an annual trek (age and health). And his travel writing is droll and incisive and without blinders
ReplyDeleteHamilton, Madison, and Jay - the "Federalist Papers"
ReplyDeleteI'll definitely second Paul Johnson - "Intellectuals" debunks and "A History of the American People" explains.
Harold Bloom? Is that a typo? Did you mean Allan Bloom?
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I jumped over the name Tom Sharpe. I've read just about all his works and press them on friends. One, author of some 20 books with no interest in novels, said to me: Why did you never tell me about Tom Sharpe? Another, a very literate former Black Panther, found his South African novels hilarious. I find the normal "comic" novel tedious but I laugh out loud (something rare) at Sharpe's perfectly named iconoclasm.
ReplyDeleteSarah A. Hoyt's Darkship Thieves. Truly, truly not PC. Tom Kratman, ditto.
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Dorothy Sayers
G K Chesterton
Eric Hoffer
Whittaker Chambers
Non alternate universe Chris Buckley
Paul Krugman!
ReplyDeleteHarold Bloom is not a typo. Western canon is higly unpc
ReplyDeletePeter Bauer
Naipaul
Philip Larkin
ReplyDeleteJohn Ringo
ReplyDeleteTom Kratman
Michael Williamson
Robert Heinlein
Tom Kratman, John Ringo, Mike Williamson.
ReplyDeleteMickey Spillane, john Norman, louis L'Amour, Dewey Lambdin, David Drake, Steve Stirling, i could go on for hoursd
ReplyDeleteAnything by Tom Kratman, and to a lesser degree John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson. David Weber as well if your definition of non-PC is loose enough.
ReplyDeleteEric Flint. He doesn't appear non PC, but the 1632 series is really about the superiority of US culture and values over another. Where it counts, the people of Grantville are assimilating the huge population of Europe rather than vice versa.
ReplyDeleteThe 1812 series, which discusses why Cherokee culture was not viable in the 1800s and how they should have changed, is also not PC.
Wallace Stevens
ReplyDeleteRudyard Kipling
Charles Bukowski
Robert Sheckley
Tom Kratman
ReplyDeleteJohn Ringo
Jack London
ReplyDeleteTerry Pratchet
ReplyDeleteTom Kratman, John Ringo, Mike Williamson
ReplyDeleteTom Kratman
ReplyDeleteJohn Ringo
Micheal Z. Williamson
Tom Kratman,
ReplyDeleteJohn Ringo,
Definitely, the Gang of Four: John Ringo, Thomas Kratman, Michael Z. Williamson, and Larry Corriea.
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