Also I would say that the ISI published American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is excellent both as a reference and a guidepost for the next generation of conservatives and individualists.

Dylan

I second all of Dylan’s suggestions (and I’ve added Left Conservative and Southern Avenger to the blogroll). In addition to TAC, the other paleocon magazine is Chronicles, for which I occasionally write as well. The two biggest paleo websites are LewRockwell.com and Taki’s Magazine; Antiwar.com is essentially paleo-libertarian as well, though it caters to anti-interventionists of all stripes.

My blogroll includes most of the prominent paleo blogs (I think), both paleoconservative and paleo-libertarian, as well as a number of non-paleo libertarian blogs and a few liberal or eclectic blogs as well.

Where paleo books are concerned, on the libertarian side I especially recommend all of Ron Paul’s books (including the forthcoming one, The Revolution: A Manifesto, which is a great introduction); as well as Speaking of Liberty by Lew Rockwell; An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard, by Justin Raimondo and the new edition of Justin’s Reclaiming the American Right, which provides useful historical background; and David Gordon’s The Essential Rothbard, which is a great guide to the thinking of the premiere paleo-libertarian theorist. For an introduction to the Misesian side of Austrian economics, I recommend Israel Kirzner’s Ludwig von Mises.

Bill Kauffman’s books bridge the gap between paleoconservatism and paleo-libertarianism. Check out his Look Homeward, America. He has a forthcoming book, which I’ll be reviewing, called Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism.

On the paleoconservative side, each of Patrick Buchanan’s books focuses on a significant thread in the paleo tapestry — trade, war and foreign policy, immigration, and the decline of traditional conservatism. They’re all worth reading. For a paleocon history of the conservative movement, there’s Paul Gottfried’s book The Conservative Movement. Professor Gottfried has also written a more theoretical examination of the Right called Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. Chilton Williamson Jr’s The Conservative Bookshelf is an invaluable paleo-guide to the canon of conservative literature — I highly recommend it. Other important paleocon books are Sam Francis’s Beautiful Losers, a paleo critique of the 1980s and 1990s right, and Thomas Fleming’s The Morality of Everyday Life.

Several classics of conservative and libertarian literature generally are also must-reading for paleos. Robert’s Nisbet’s The Quest for Community and Conservatism: Dream and Reality are two that I value very highly. Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind is the classic exposition of traditionalist conservatism (though Kirk is critical of libertarians and classical liberals), and Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is still essential, as is Richard M. Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences. The best histories of the conservative intellectual movement and the libertarian movement are George H. Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945 and Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism. For the pre-1945 roots of conservatism and libertarianism, there’s The Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945.

Don’t bankrupt yourself trying to track down everything at once. Start off with whatever you can find on sale or going cheap. The books by Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, and Bill Kauffman are the best places to start, I’d say.

Check out the blogroll Dan has on the site. He has a lot of interesting stuff up there.

The archives of lewrockwell and antiwar.com are very well kept and have tons of stuff worth checking out.

I hate wiikipedia, but the paleoconservative entry is filled with worthwhile links also.

Dylan

P.S. I’ll plug my own blog http://www.leftconservativeblog.blogspot.com as well as my friend “The Southern Avenger” Jack Hunter’s page at the Charleston (SC) City Paper http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/ I hope Dan doesn’t mind the shameless self promotion.

Btw, you have any recommendations of any books, websites, blogs, etc. for paleoconservative/libertarian thinkers? You should make a list for noobies like myself .

Glad to see you back full time with TAC. I look forward to the multi-pronged review of the Critchlow and Regnery books. I have not read “Upstream” yet, but read the Critchlow book when it first hit the shelves. I have mixed feelings about it, but overall think it is an interesting extension of Nash’s work into the overtly political American landscape. Interested to see your thoughts.

Dylan