Gregory V. Diehl - Author

04/05/2026

It's here just in time for Star Wars Day... Order your copy of Turning to the Dark Side while it's still priced at just $1.66 (hehe).

Discover a profound real-world interpretation of the saga, exploring the seminal story of how a good person can lose themselves and what it takes to bring them back. Through a close analysis of Episodes I–VI, the parallel arcs of Anakin and Luke Skywalker reveal how someone who feels too deep...

09/04/2026

My new book, Turning to the Dark Side: What Star Wars Teaches Us About How a Good Person Turns Bad, is now available for preorder in ebook and audiobook format. Paperback and hardcover will be available when it releases on May 4th (May the Fourth Be with You!)

You can read the book's introduction for free on my latest blog post: https://www.gregorydiehl.net/l/turning-to-the-dark-side/

If you were one of the book's early beta readers, I thank you for your contribution to making the book what it is today. I look forward to hearing what the rest of you think of it once you've had a chance to read the whole book.

"Turning to the dark side" is an idiom derived from the pop culture success of Star Wars, referring to someone starting to act in a way that is harmful, destructive, or evil, as exemplified by Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader.

01/03/2025

I was always the kind of guy who needed things to make sense, and they didn't. I looked at the world around me, and nothing about how human beings had come to organize and establish the world on virtually any scale of operation made sense to me. And nobody whose opinion I trusted, no authority figure, no social leader could explain it to me in a way that made sense until I was exposed to the ideas of Andrew Galambos. If that sounds like you, I encourage you to take my endorsement and look into what has been published here as Sic Itur Ad Astra from Spaceland Publications.

Few things about how the human world organized itself made sense to me until I was exposed to the ideas of Andrew J. Galambos in the V-50 Lectures.

28/02/2025

When I was 21, I was introduced by economist John Pugsley to a little-known course called the V-50 Lectures from Professor Andrew J. Galambos. It completely changed my understanding of the history of scientific discovery and what it means to assess all aspects of reality with a scientific worldview, including how to use scientific methodology to solve social problems in ways most people would never consider. Most importantly, it gave me confidence in my ability to determine what’s true, regardless of what people around me happen to think.

For 15 years, the V-50 Lectures remained the single most impactful intellectual influence of my life, but it was impossible to find any other published works by Andrew Galambos. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I learned that his most important work had recently been published in book form by Spaceland Publications under the title Sic Itur Ad Astra (Latin for “This Is the Way to the Stars”) as a 15-volume set. It includes both the introductory course V-50 and the advanced course V-201.

V-50: The Basic Course of the Volitional Sciences: 3-Session Introduction:
https://amzn.to/3D6MUgY (affiliate link)

Spaceland Publications:
https://spacelandpublications.com/

15/02/2025

In honor of Valentine's Day, my s*xiest book is free on Kindle today (normally $9.99). Check out the ebook of The Romantic Ideal on Amazon. What a great way to deepen your understanding of masculine love, s*x, and intimacy. https://amzn.to/4e7y5Y6

09/12/2024

The Romantic Ideal is not for the faint of heart. It demands readers confront their assumptions about love, gender, and identity. Diehl’s prose is incisive, his anecdotes poignant, and his conclusions polarizing. Yet, his work resonates because it dares to ask: What is love if not the ultimate journey toward self-actualization, guided by the light of another?

If you’re ready to question not just how you love but why, Diehl’s book will challenge you like few others can.

If you’re ready to question not just how you love but why, Diehl’s book will challenge you like few others can.

19/11/2024

Just launched on Amazon today, for International Men’s Day. Learn about the timeless and quintessential masculine perspective on love from one of the world’s most pedantic over-explainers. Just 99 cents for the ebook and $9.99 for the paperback for a limited time. Hardcover and audiobook also available.

The Romantic Ideal—The Highest Standard of Romance for a Man: A Hopeless Romantic's Exploration of Masculine Intimacy, S*x, and Love

13/11/2024

https://youtu.be/k8vn50wvwy4?si=5cj0gsokXztQf0Di

One thing that prevents people from seeing and acting on entrepreneurial opportunities is that they don’t recognize when something not particularly noteworth...

26/10/2024

It’s impossible to learn about politics without also learning about economics, and vice versa. Every political action or claim is also an economic action or claim. Both, ultimately, describe our paradigm about and response to how people make choices.

It’s impossible to learn about politics without also learning about economics, and vice versa. Every political action or claim is also an economic action or ...

09/09/2024

I've known a lot of very promising very interesting, talented, beautiful, and intelligent people who feel very restrained, and contained, and detained. And it's mostly guilt, shame, and fear imposed on them by the culture around them. It's like they're so desperate to break out of those restraints that have been put on them, but they have no idea how. Everyone's primary concern is “What will people think of me if they know this about me, if they see me doing this?” It's a psychic epidemic, a wall around the consciousness of every bright individual. If there is something we're fighting against at the Kalavan Retreat Center, it's that: the psychic restraints put on intelligent, good, and capable people. That's the American dream.

I've known a lot of very promising, interesting, talented, beautiful, and intelligent people who feel very restrained, contained, and detained. And it's most...

08/09/2024

In this author interview, Gregory V. Diehl, founder of Identity Publications, sits down with author Manuel Gezalyan to discuss his upcoming book, I Lift, The...