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Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the M…

The Treaty with China

Read by John Greenman

Mark Twain

"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New Y…

מדינת היהודים (The Jewish State)

Read by Omri Lernau

Theodor Herzl

Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein'…

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

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…

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…

Irish Impressions

Read by Ray Clare

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 …

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

Read by BethAnne

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

Read by progressingamerica

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

Read by Allyson Hester

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…

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…

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 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…

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