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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 …

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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 …

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Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison