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“As I have told my adult masters students...‘Until you read this, you don't know what you're talking about.’ ... Baskerville is a rhetorical master.... You cannot pass this up...an absolute must read. It's transformative.”
Dr Frederick Feldman
Unconventional Perspectives on
Politics, History, Religion, Law, Sex
& Higher Education
About the Author
Stephen Baskerville, PhD
is Professor at the Collegium Intermarium
in Warsaw and research fellow at the
Independent Institute, the Howard Center
for Family, Religion, and Society, and other professional associations. He is the author of 5 major books and more than 100 articles on politics, religion, history, law, and other topics.
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Books
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You will find no platitudes, jargon, or esoterica in these books. They will push you outside your comfort zone and force you to think about important matters in ways you have certainly not done. In each case, what you will find is very different from the clichés presented by academic scholars and media. That these books contain more than the standard academic pablum accounts for the obstruction each one encountered from powerful interests that fiercely opposed publication. None of these books (except perhaps my new one) waited less than 6 years to be published, and one waited over 30. Multiple written agreements were simply broken by prestigious publishers when they found themselves under pressure for having agreed to publish a book that might cause them controversy (documentation available). These books and other writings cost the author at least two academic positions, further testifying that the information they contain is important enough that powerful people would rather you not know it. After all, no one loses a university job these days for publishing tedious pedantry – or nothing at all.
Now available on Amazon.com

A new book by
Stephen Baskerville
View the Table of Contents and Introduction.
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"Professor Baskerville is one of the most brilliant intellectuals in the United States at the moment. His latest book discusses the political events over the last decades that led to the absolute defeat of the Right and the hegemonic rise of a totalitarian Left."
– Augusto Zimmermann, Professor and Head of Law, Sheridan College, Perth,
and author, Merchants of Death: Global Oligarchs and Their War On Humanity
"Do you ever wonder how and why America was taken over by woke ideology? ... If you are like me ..read Stephen Baskerville’s new book. It just might help us save Western civilization.”
– Helen Smith, PhD, author, Men on Strike
"Baskerville has claims to being the world’s pre-eminent scholar. He’s always eminently readable, makes complete sense and knows of what he speaks. More power to him."
– Reader's comment at the New English Review


"When future historians are chronicling the collapse of western civilization, a.k.a. Christendom, all they need do is read two people. The late British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge is one, and Baskerville is the other. Neither was capable of writing a dull sentence whilst all the while being doughty defenders of truth."
Reader at the New English Review
A bit lighter...

A Gentleman's Guide
to Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World
How to Survive as a Man in the Age of Misandry – and Do It with Grace
"This book could single-handedly restore the virility of Western civilization if only enough of persons today who, born male, flatter themselves in considering they have the potential to embody the masterful and complex calculus of being previously titled 'man,' would read it."
Amazon reader
The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Government Power (2017)
"Professor Baskerville has written what well may be the most important book of 2017. He has written a masterly and authoritative account of how 'sexual radicalism' has infected and transformed culture, politics, and the legal system."
Deal Hudson
Founder, Crisis magazine
President, Morley Institute
"I could not put this endlessly fascinating book down after opening it. ... Anyone concerned about civil liberties or the family will benefit from reading it."
Hans Bader, Senior Attorney
Competitive Enterprise Institute
"This is the most frightening book I have read in years. Baskerville is relentless in showing how our society has waged war against marriage, and how little judicial protection is available today to those of us who resist the attack."
Phil Lawler, Editor
Catholic World News
"The world's greatest academic."
Substack reader
"This book is a tremendous and much needed report on how family courts and government policies are harming children."
Phyllis Schlafly
"Baskerville has exposed a major abuse of power that is not only responsible for destroying families and for the social disorder that ensues from that. It also rationalizes massive government spending and violations of our constitutional freedoms by courts, bureaucracies, and other arms of the state."
Grover Norquist, President
Americans for Tax Reform
"This book is nothing short of horrifying..."
Amazon reader
"This is a beautifully written thesis and superbly organized.... Everything in these covers is a pleasure to contemplate."
Professor David Martin
Sociologist of Religion
London School of Economics
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“It's not often that books from academia are unputdownable and required reading, but Baskerville makes a habit of writing such. … No claim is undocumented, and yet most uncharacteristically of his scholastic brethren, he is eminently readable, which of course makes him a damned fine writer.”
“Why Is Abortion So Important to the Left?”, Chronicles (online edition), 2 October 2024.
“Will the Republicans Really Lose – Again?”, American Thinker, 20 September 2024.
“The ‘Marxism’ Narrative Has Gone Too Far,” Chronicles, September 2024.
"The Real Indictment Against Kamala Harris," New English Review, August 2024, reprinted as "Keir and Kamala Cut from the Same Cloth," with an added introduction, at the Forum for Democracy
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"Baskerville is the world’s pre-eminent academic, although with all due respect, that’s not saying much these days." Chronicles magazine reader's comment
“The Revolution Devours Its Own Children," New English Review, July 2024
"Why Is There a Left?” American Thinker, 16 May 2024, reprinted at the Forum for Democracy, 13 June 2024
Hamas, Hezbollah, and Diffusing Radical Religion,” New English Review, May 2024
"Why the United States Went Communist", American Thinker, 1 March 2024, reprinted at the Forum for Democracy, 22 May 2024
“Hostility Between Iran and the US Is Not the Norm – and Is Not Inevitable”, Baskerville Institute Newsletter, Spring 2024
“A Conservative Self-Critique,” review of Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay, ed. Arthur Milikh, Chronicles, January 2024
“Toxic Western Wokeness Exacerbates Middle East Conflict,” Chronicles, 26 December 2023
“Black Lives Don’t Matter -- Despite the Pieties of Both the Left and Right,” New English Review, August 2023
“What Might Be Keeping Tucker Carlson Quiet,” American Thinker, 6 May 2023
“Why Has Tucker Carlson Been So Reticent?” American Thinker, 5 May 2023
“How Conservatives Got the Trump Indictment Backwards,” American Thinker, 28 April 2023
“The Real Problem with Memphis,” American Thinker, 5 February 2023.
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Special Section



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Corruption in Higher Education
(It is worse than you can possibly imagine.)
The malaise in the universities is much deeper and older than suggested by cliches about "cancel culture." This special section of articles, published in major education journals, 2020-21, shows how the left gets away with its chicanery because the right colludes with them.
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"Baskerville has claims to being the world’s pre-eminent scholar. He’s always eminently readable, makes complete sense and knows of what he speaks. More power to him."
-- Reader at the New English Review
Why do conservatives lose every battle? More urgent right now, why did they also lose the war? Why was the left allowed to stage a coup and take over the US government? But perhaps the biggest question is this: Why does no one ask these questions? Answering this question may answer the others. Despite the multiple catastrophes of the last 2+ years, no discussion has been held (or permitted) about why it happened, who let it happen, or what to do about it. Conservative leaders blithely carry on doing what led to their disastrous defeat in the first place, plugging their ears to criticism.
Welfare reform used to be the Republicans' #1 domestic priority. Distinguished scholars (both liberal and conservative) warned of the destructiveness of welfare programs. The destruction has not abated. It continues and worsen, most starkly in the violence in black America, with anguished cries of "racism". But Republicans threw in the towel and abandoned welfare reform. The result is that the underclass (and their middle-class imitators) became the ruling class, with BLM and the current White House junta.