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The Lockdown Library

by Toby Young
2 April 2021 11:03 PM

Plenty of readers have written in with suggestions of books to add to David McGrogan’s Lockdown Sceptics’ Library. I’m not going to name them because they didn’t say whether they were happy to be identified or not (for the most part). If you have any additional suggestions, please email them to me at LockdownSceptics@gmail.com and put “Lockdown Library” in the subject header. I’ve added these books below David’s piece.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, 1841

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, 1999

The Black Death by Philip Ziegler, 1969

Scared to Death: From BSE to Coronavirus by Christopher Booker and Richard North, 2020

Live not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher, 2020

A Delusion of Satan: The full story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill, 1995

Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in 16th and 17th Century England by Keith Thomas, 1971

The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, 1953

How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Frank Furedi, 2018

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, 1956

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973

Where Are We Now: The Epidemic as Politics by Giorgio Agamben, 2021

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer, 1951

The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by Ryszard Legutko, 2018

Notes From the Bunderground: Culture in the Time of COVID-19 by Fred Attenborough, 2020

Frustrations of a Sceptic by Jonny Peppiatt, 2021

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, 1975

Panopticon: The Inspection House by Jeremy Bentham, 1791

Tags: Lockdown Sceptics' Library

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Jane G
Jane G
4 years ago

I’ve just started reading ‘Stop Bloody Bossing Me About’ by Quentin Letts.

I’ve laughed several times and have only just finished the preface and the introduction.

Believe me, I don’t laugh easily these days.

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Tom Blackburn
Tom Blackburn
4 years ago

That list seems a little short on humour. I’m recommending ‘Breakfast of Champions’ by Kurt Vonnegut.

Delivers truth in spades.

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Jakub
Jakub
4 years ago
  • The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek – because basically we’ve been on this road for some time now…
  • The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell – I guess zero-covid is prerequisite for self-congratulation
  • A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – their vision is they’re heroes and you’re a Gramma Killer
  • Is Reality Optional? by Thomas Sowell – clearly the elites have opted out of it some time ago
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