Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The autobiography of one of the United States’ most interesting Founding Fathers offers lessons still relevant for today.
How We Know by Harry Binswanger
What is knowledge? How is it acquired? How are claims to knowledge to be validated? Can man achieve rational certainty, or is he doomed to perpetual doubt? How We Know answers these and related questions by providing an uncompromising defense of reason, logic, and objectivity. Using vivid examples, Dr. Binswanger traces the hierarchical development of knowledge, from its base in sensory perception, to conceptformation, to logical inference, to its culmination in the principles of science and philosophy.
A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“Political Economy, like the exact sciences, is composed of a small number of fundamental principles and a great many corollaries that follow from these principles. . . . These principles are not the work of men; they derive from the nature of things. They are not established; they are found. They govern lawmakers and princes, who never violate them with impunity.” – Jean Baptiste Say
A classic of political economy, on par with Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, that puts the entrepreneur at the center of the economic process.
The Diversity Delusion by Heather Mac Donald
How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
“Diversity” in the academy purported to be about bridge-building and broadening people’s experiences. It has had the opposite effect: dividing society, reducing learning, and creating an oppositional mind-set that prevents individuals from seizing the opportunities available to them. It is humanistic learning, by contrast, that involves an actual encounter with diversity and difference, as students enter worlds radically different from their own. Humanistic study involves imaginative empathy and curiosity, which are being squelched in today’s university in favor of self-engrossed complaint. Teaching the classics is the duty we owe these great works for giving us an experience of the sublime. Once we stop lovingly transmitting them to the next generation, they die. For decades, universities have drifted further and further away from their true purpose. Now they are taking the rest of the world with them.” –
How the anti-Western Civilization, anti-freedom, post-modern, “woke”, collectivist, ideologies dominating the social science and humanity departments of American Universities are spilling outside the university into all realms of American culture like a virus.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
After a difficult life as a youth, the orphan Jane Eyre, now governess of the secluded Thornfield Hall —the first place she has ever really felt at home — discovers the secret of the attic that threatens to destroy her dreams of happiness forever.