Required Reading

Here are some materials you should take the time and initiative to engage with

“Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.”                                                    -Richard M. Nixon

Expand Your Mind

  • An Open Letter To  Bill Bennett – Milton Freidman

https://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/viceCrime/m6/Milton%20Friedman%20-%20An%20Open%20Letter%20To%20Bill%20Bennett.htm

  • The Chicago School of Economics

https://cruel.org/econthought/essays/monetarism/friedmanchicago.html

  • Industrial Society and its Future – Theodore J. Kaczynski

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

  • How Chaos Theory Debunks the New World Order:

http://highexistence.com/snowflakes-and-the-illumanati-how-chaos-theory-debunks-the-new-world-order/

  • The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory – Sebastian Rosato

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/flawed-logic-of-democratic-peace-theory/83A851232D297851885BC0D203E38616

  • Why Japan Surrendered – Robert A. Pape

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2539100?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

  • The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did – Ward Wilson

The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did

  • Why Iran Should Get the Bomb: Nuclear Balancing Would Mean Stability – Kenneth N. Waltz

Click to access Waltz.pdf

  • E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century
    The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture – Robert D. Putnam

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.515.6374&rep=rep1&type=pdf&fbclid=IwAR0DPBCcllcQY1yMU25iaO_XsBfKNYcWLOKiJfeE_wr6l7ioO8GvcD299uc

  • The Myth of The Moderate Voter: No one’s less moderate than moderates – Ezra Klien

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5878293/lets-stop-using-the-word-moderate

  • Real Examples of Tragedy of the Commons

https://www.dummies.com/education/science/environmental-science/ten-real-life-examples-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

  • Understanding International Relations paradigms – International Relations: One World, Many Theories – Stephen M. Walt

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1149275?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

The Classics

  • Politics and the English Language – George Orwell

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

  • The Sporting Spirit – George Orwell

http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/spirit/english/e_spirit

  • Hunter S. Thomspon’s Life Advice to Friend

https://yourfriendshouse.com/uncategorised/hunter-s-thompson-on-finding-your-purpose/

  • Ends and Means – Aldous Huxley

https://archive.org/stream/endsandmeans035237mbp/endsandmeans035237mbp_djvu.txt

  • “Socialism in Our Past and Future” – by Igor Shafarevich

http://www.savageleft.com/poli/hoc.html

  • Tom Wolfe- The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyce.html

  • Tom Wolfe – Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/Wolfe-Sorry-But-Your-Soul-Just-Died.php

  • Tom Wolfe – The Artist the World Couldn’t See

https://www.jeanstephengalleries.com/hart-wolfe.html

  • Dan Hitchens – When Did Advertising Become So Banal

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/09/when-did-advertising-become-so-banal/

  • Tom Wolfe – The Great Relearning

great relearning

  • Tom Wolfe – In The Land of The Rococo Marxists

in-the-land-of-the-rococo-marxists-by-tom-wolfe

 

Excerpt from Maps of Meaning, Dear Dad… from JordanPeterson