The Dark Enlightenment
Democracy as a failure mode, and exit in place of voice. The founding text of neoreaction, cited constantly and read rarely, listed here because Cowen read it.
The founding text of neoreaction, arguing that democracy is a failure mode and that exit should replace voice. Widely cited and rarely read. What is most striking on actually reading it is the depth of its pessimism about American institutions, which is treated as self-evident rather than argued for, and which the record does not obviously support.
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Tyler Cowen
There is plenty one can say about this book and these views, but most of all I am struck how negative “the new Right” is about American institutions. Even at whatever you might think is their most decrepit state (which year is that again?), they are some of the best institutions the world has seen.
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