This is a short reading list of books that I have either read recently, or plan on reading soon (titles will added over the course of academic year 2008-09):

James Burnham. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (Greenwood Press, 1972). A review by George Orwell is available here.

Victor Davis Hanson. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Random House, 2006). The Claremont Review of Books review is here.

Arthur Herman. The Idea of Decline in Western History (Free Press, 2007).

Richard Kahlenberg. Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007). Inside HigherEd review here.

Daniel Kelly. James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life (ISI Books, 2002).

George Lakoff. The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand 21st Century American Politics with a 18th Century Brain (Viking, 2008).

John A. Nagl, David H. Petraeus, James F. Amos, and Sarah Sewall. The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Karl Popper. The Open Society and its Enemies. (Routledge, 2006).

Gil Troy. Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents (Basic Books, 2008).

Ruth Wisse. Jews and Power. (Nextbook, 2007). read reviews at Commentary and Democratiya.