Mencius Moldbug notes that the only history taught and discussed today comes from a decidedly progressive point of view, so he offers up ten books from which to construct a reactionary theory of modern history:
- Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France.
- Henry Maine — Popular Government.
- W.E.H. Lecky — Democracy and Liberty.
- Walter Lippmann — Public Opinion.
- Edgar Lee Masters — Lincoln the Man.
- Albert Jay Nock — Memoirs of a Superfluous Man.
- John T. Flynn — As We Go Marching.
- Bertrand de Jouvenel — On Power.
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn — Liberty or Equality.
- James Burnham — Suicide of the West.