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10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help, Benjamin Wiker

10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

By Benjamin Wiker

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From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and their literary works and shows how these works have... read more

A Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun

A Disquisition on Government

By John C. Calhoun

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Written between 1843 and 1848, A Disquisition on Government addresses such issues as states' rights and slavery and articulates the doctrine of the concurrent majority, today a central tenet of... read more

A World Without Heroes: The Modern Tragedy, George Roche

A World Without Heroes: The Modern Tragedy

By George Roche

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An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roche's A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age.... read more

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Reconsidered, Revised, & Expanded With Twenty-Five New Essays, Robert Fulghum

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Reconsidered, Revised, & Expanded With Twenty-Five New Essays

By Robert Fulghum

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Twenty-five years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo-a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Today, after being... read more

All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View, Walter E. Williams

All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View

By Walter E. Williams

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This is a collection of Walter Williams' essays, drawn from his syndicated column. Williams writes with brilliant clarity––and he doesn't mince words. He destroys a number of prevailing... read more

Allegory of the Cave: An Excerpt from The Republic, Plato

Allegory of the Cave: An Excerpt from The Republic

By Plato

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Plato's description of what it is like to be a philosopher - a lover of... read more

Apology of Socrates, Plato

Apology of Socrates

By Plato

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The Apology of Socrates is one of the earliest existing documents of Greek philosophy - everything earlier was lost and is known only through quoted fragments in later works, like those of Plato... read more

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

By Christopher Hitchens

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The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, ARGUABLY offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers,... read more

Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity, Roger Kimball

Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

By Roger Kimball

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"In this collection of essays, art critic Roger Kimball illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. He observes that most of the really invigorating action in the art world... read more

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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First published in 1886 at Nietzsche's own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He... read more