Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Books to Read to Cleanse Yourself of University Propaganda
1) The Power of the Powerless — Václav Havel
2) The Road to Serfdom — F. A. Hayek
3) Basic Economics — Thomas Sowell
4) Capitalism and Freedom — Milton Friedman
5) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
6) The Captive Mind — Czesław Miłosz
7) Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler
8) The Open Society and its Enemies — Karl Popper
https://x.com/pensandpoison/status/2099182094111199388
At Columbia University, we read every socialist theorist under the sun—from Theodor Adorno to Jacques Derrida to Frantz Fanon to Karl Marx himself. But we never read the other side of the aisle.
In colleges across the nation, socialism has become the dominant ideology—and by no accident, either. English departments teach almost exclusively far-left theorists, and as a result, the majority of students emerge from humanities departments with staunch socialist convictions that carry over into their adult lives.
https://www.pensandpoison.org/p/columbia-taught-me-socialism-these
The Lost Tools of Learning. Set yourself a reading course based on this book & you won't have to go to University, and you'll be better educated than an Ivy League grad. Also 'How to Read a Book', Mortimer Adler
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"The Reformation era in general and Martin Luther in particular are absolutely decisive for the history of the Holy Roman Empire and beyond."
https://x.com/five_books/status/2099271933279818178
Gen Z is the first generation to experience soul-suicide at industrial scale. Dr Steiner warned that humanity is entering an age of inner emptiness. A time when materialism, overstimulation, and the loss of spiritual orientation would weaken the human being from within.
https://x.com/RudolfStein2026/status/2098911917901484401
History wasn't lost by accident; it was systematically dismantled in five calculated stages—from dismissing rigorous traditional scholarship as "archaic" to institutionalizing ideological distortion. Read the stark truth on how civilizational memory was erased: dharmadispatch.in/the-calculated…
https://x.com/dharmadispatch/status/2099111320000061713
The Richness of Cultural Diversity
by Dr Salim Nazzal countercurrents.org/2026/09/the-ri…
Dr Salim Nazzal reflects on the extraordinary diversity of human cultures and the ways in which narrow cultural perspectives can limit our understanding of the world. Drawing on his experiences with Arab, Indian, American, Russian, Chinese, Asian, African and Latin American cinema, he describes a gradual widening of his cultural horizons. He argues for greater engagement with the literature, films, music and ideas of peoples beyond familiar cultural centres. Such engagement can deepen mutual understanding, challenge inherited prejudices and enrich cultural life. The article calls for a broader appreciation of humanity’s many traditions, histories, creative expressions and ways of understanding life.
https://x.com/Countercurrents/status/2099315165212901764
The modern left-wing academic is a paradox wrapped in a degree and sealed with a lie. They claim the mantle of intellectualism while systematically destroying the very foundations of rational inquiry. True scholarship demands a ruthless pursuit of truth, no matter how uncomfortable or inconvenient. The left, however, demands the suppression of truth if it contradicts their sacred narratives. They do not seek knowledge; they seek validation. An intellectual who refuses to follow the evidence where it leads is not an intellectual at all. They are a priest in a secular religion of victimhood, and their temples of higher learning have become indoctrination camps...
They use the language of compassion to mask a deep-seated hatred for success, freedom, and individual achievement. They claim to care about the poor while their policies keep people in dependency. This is not ignorance. It is a calculated strategy to maintain a permanent underclass of voters...
The term "academic" implies a certain level of rigor and objectivity. The left has abandoned both. They have replaced peer review with cancel culture. They have replaced debate with shouting down opponents. They have replaced facts with "feelings" and " lived experiences." This is not scholarship. It is emotional manipulation. A real academic welcomes challenges to their ideas. A left-wing academic calls the police. They cannot defend their ideas on the battlefield of ideas, so they try to shut the battlefield down. This is the tactic of the weak, the cowardly, and the intellectually dishonest.
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That should be no excuse to deny a historical injustice or current inaction. The Left exists for a reason. It is easier to say 'This doesn't suit me" than invoke situations. Injustice is current. It is happening under your nose. Now
https://x.com/madversity/status/1689931070396157952
It is too dense and abstract. Sri Aurobindo's thoughts are too esoteric for consumption. Easier communication is critical for a philosophy to be adopted as religion
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Ideas must be discussed. They can be adopted and modified. Will be done as per Mother's will
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"By reaching beyond the brain... we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone." The fascinating science of how we think not with the brain but with the world: themarginalian.org/2026/09/13/the…
https://x.com/themarginalian/status/2099151577084780907
Chaos, uncertainty, and noise are often thought of as getting in the way of an organism's plans. | bit.ly/48lb2ZO But Conor Feehly argues that biologists are increasingly discovering ways in which life necessarily uses chaos as a creative tool for adapting to an uncertain world.
https://x.com/IAI_TV/status/2099147592500191657
Philosophy needs to focus on the effects its ideas can have on our everyday lives, not just exist in the abstract. This is what one of the world's most famous living philosophers, Slavoj Žižek, argues in this studio interview. He also discusses his issues with cancel culture, explains how quantum physics teaches us that history is not predetermined, and reveals his one rule for life. Tap here to read his full interview. iai.tv/articles/slavo…
https://x.com/IAI_TV/status/2099187375582724603
What lies beyond love, lifetimes and dimensions? Adi Varuni’s Somewhere Among the Stars explores consciousness, Vedanta and Yoga. Watch this compelling conversation between the author and @PariksithSingh. youtu.be/euBoPHMkbAQ?si… @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas
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Mises grounded monetary theory in human action, in individual choices made under uncertainty, not in aggregate statistics. GDP figures and CPI measurements obscure the actual damage inflation does to specific people making specific decisions. A retiree in Phoenix holding dollar-denominated bonds in September 2026 isn't experiencing "2.8% inflation." She's watching her purchasing power get quietly confiscated while the Fed congratulates itself on stability. Mises gave you the tools to see through that performance. Most economists still pretend Mises never existed.
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Do people prefer traditional architecture? Betteridge's Laws of Headlines doesn't apply: The answer is yes. I offered one explanation for the proliferation of architecture that people hate in The Blank Slate: In the 20th century, elites came to believe that the human sense of beauty was socially constructed, and could be re-engineered at will by modernist artists, and designers. worksinprogress.co/issue/do-peopl…
https://x.com/sapinker/status/2099165772816036060
It helps to remember that we are children of improbability, that everything we treasure exists not because it had to, not because it was likely or necessary, but because the universe took a gamble against the staggering odds otherwise:
https://x.com/brainpickings/status/2099138570887864750
Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century German abbess and mystic, described creation as a network of interacting forces. Fire, ether, air and the cosmic winds were not isolated phenomena. They belonged to a single order governing the heavens, nature and life on Earth. She carried this logic into the human body. The cosmic winds had counterparts in the humors and bodily processes. The same pattern extended into the soul, where thought, speech, will and inner longing were understood as forms of movement and force.
https://x.com/AtlasOfWisdom/status/2099150705734881489
How Madonna, Grace Jones, Joan Jett, Whitney Houston, and their contemporaries in the ’80s broke the musical mold of the ’60s and ’70s and inspired generations of women to pick up an instrument and play music.
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Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav. India Viking. New Delhi, 2024. pp. xviii+ 748. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb.₹ …
nationalism, showing instead that his idea of Hindu regeneration was moral and
reformist in character. For Rai, the renewal of Hindu life rested on self-education …
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema: edited by Swapna Gopinath and Rutuja Deshmukh …
Hindu … a growing alignment with the nationalist ideology of Hindutva groups.
These films distort and … book becomes the first full-length study on Hindutva and …
[PDF] Caste on Screen: A Study of Dalit Representations in Contemporary Indian Films
shapes the stories films choose to narrate. To approach cinema as a
representational space is thus a challenge not only for filmmakers, who negotiate …
[PDF] Other Visions of the Economy: NGOs and Transformations of Islamic Charity in North India
practices of obligatory Islamic almsgiving (zakat). This transformation reconfigured
the ritual of zakat from its historical emphasis on local giving among kin and …
[HTML] Play of Hindutva in Kashmir and Disruption of Regional and Global Peace
poses a threat to regional and global security. Through a detailed analysis of
Hindutva … the disruptive impact of Hindutva ideology on peace and stability: How …
[PDF] Muslims and the COVID-19 pandemic: myth-busting the demonisation of Muslim communities
throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and the experiences of religious and community
leaders in responding to the challenges facing Muslims as a disproportionately …
The Political Unbound: Conservative Arab Thought after Islam
Since the uprisings of 2011, however, the most forceful critics of theology’s presence
in politics have been conservatives. This article reconstructs the intellectual history …
Jerry Pinto's new book presents conversations with caregivers of seriously ill patients
love their parents and that siblings love each other. We assume that the bedrock of
the family is love, and this is so often the case that we find departures from the norm …
[HTML] Shaik Ali, Misria Kudankulam review
Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India," which critically examines truth
extraction techniques such as narco-analysis, brain scans, and polygraph tests …
[PDF] Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms
efforts. This research assessed how basic psychological need expression among
users of extremist chatrooms was related to forum engagement and hate term use. ∼20,000,000 …
