Political Science

Considerations on Representative Government

Read by Bill Boerst


John Stuart Mill


Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…

Irish Impressions

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G. K. Chesterton


“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Gene Sharp


From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

The Gettysburg Address (version 4)

Read by Jim Cadwell


Abraham Lincoln


The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…

Essay on the Trial by Jury

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Lysander Spooner


FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…

La Rana Viajera

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Julio Camba


Julio Camba Andreu (1884 - 1962) fue un escritor y periodista español. Nació en una familia gallega de clase media. A los trec…

The Mysterious Forces of Civilization

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (Persian: Risálih-i-Madaníyyih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effend&ia…

Signs of Change

Read by Deborah Brabyn


William Morris


In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

Political Ideals

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Bertrand Russell


This is a book by the famous 20th century British philosopher Bertrand Russell on Political Ideals. It was written during the course of Worl…

Public Opinion

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Walter Lippmann


Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippman, is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often…

Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

Read by D.E. Wittkower


Immanuel Kant


This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

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United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency


This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effe…

Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

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Imbert De Saint-Amand


"Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the prese…

The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

Read by Pamela Nagami


Beatrice A. Lees


Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

The Octopus

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank Norris


Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…

Macht oder ökonomisches Gesetz?

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Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk


Böhm-Bawerk, Mitbegründer der Österreichischen Schule der Nationalökonomie, erörtert, ob ökonomische Gesetze a…

O Abolicionismo

Read by Rachel Moraes


Joaquim Nabuco


“O Abolicionismo” é uma das obras mais importantes para a abolição da escravatura, no Brasil. Ela propõe, como t…

Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

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John Ruskin


John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…

Sabotage

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn


Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' indu…

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