Political Science
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…
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 Law
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Frédéric Bastiat
"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…
The Federalist Papers (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
“The Federalist Papers” are a collection of 85 linked essays that explain the construction of the U.S. government and why it was built that …
Sabotage
Read by Enko
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' indu…
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses
Read by John Greenman
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. Hi…
Democracy - An American Novel
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry Brooks Adams
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Xenophon
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…
Twenty Years at Hull House
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Henry David Thoreau
"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…
Offences Against One's Self: Paederasty
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
Read by James K. White
Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
Areopagitica (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
Read by Sean Michael Hogan
Stephen Leacock
This lengthy political essay by noted Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock was written while he was professor of political economy at McGill U…
The Free Press
Read by Sean McClain
Hilaire Belloc
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1
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Niccolò Machiavelli
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
From Dictatorship to Democracy (version 2)
Read by Benjamin Gittins
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…
Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to tha…
Read by Pamela Nagami
William Wolfe Capes
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…