Clausewitzian

Student of economics, political theory, and history with a focus on classical liberalism and Austrian School thought. Interested in ideological consistency, real-world outcomes, and the philosophical foundations of freedom. I approach debates with a focus on logic, source-based argumentation, and historical context.

Books I've read, which have had an influential impact on me and my opinions on their respective subjects:

Economics & Political Theory
Human Action – Ludwig von Mises
The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek
Man, Economy, and State – Murray Rothbard
Capital and Interest – Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Das Kapital (Vol. 1) – Karl Marx
Leftism Revisited – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

Strategy, War & Statecraft
On War – Carl von Clausewitz
The Art of War – Helmuth von Moltke
Memoirs – Klemens von Metternich
Diplomacy – Henry Kissinger
The Second World War (series) – Winston Churchill
On Grand Strategy – John Lewis Gaddis
Enemy at the Gates: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe – Andrew Wheatcroft
Napoleon the Great – Andrew Roberts
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Sleepwalkers – Christopher Clark
The Jewish War – Flavius Josephus
Bloodlands – Timothy Snyder
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William Shirer

Law, Leadership & Political Biography
Jurisprudence – John Salmond
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary – Juan Williams
Reagan: The Life – H.W. Brands
Theodore Rex – Edmund Morris
My First Seventy-Six Years – Hjalmar Schacht
Frederick the Great – Giles MacDonogh or Nancy Mitford
It Doesn’t Take a Hero – Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller – Ron Chernow

Philosophy, History & Civilization
The Constitution of Liberty – Friedrich Hayek
The Fatal Conceit – Friedrich Hayek
Seven Pillars of Wisdom – T.E. Lawrence
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician – Anthony Everitt
Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
Objective Secure – Tim Gordon