This Week's Reading
The Theory of Money and Credit
By Ludwig von Mises
A foundational work in Austrian economics that explains the nature of money, credit, and the business cycle. Von Mises demonstrates how credit expansion leads to economic distortions and provides essential insights into free-market monetary theory.
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These foundational texts explore the principles of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.
Man, Economy, and State
By Murray Rothbard
A comprehensive treatise on economic theory and the principles of free market economics and individual liberty.
For the New Intellectual
By Ayn Rand
A collection of essays presenting the moral justification for capitalism and the virtue of rational self-interest.
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
By Leonard Peikoff
A systematic exposition of Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism, covering metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and politics.
Democracy: The God That Failed
By Hans-Hermann Hoppe
An examination of the economics and politics of monarchy, democracy, and natural order, offering a critique of democratic governance.
The Law
By Frédéric Bastiat
A foundational work exploring the proper role of law in society and the protection of individual rights against government overreach.
I, Pencil
By Leonard E. Read
A classic essay demonstrating the impossibility of one person making a pencil, proving the need for free and unhampered markets to make the world go round.
Economics in One Lesson
By Henry Hazlitt
The shortest and surest way to understand basic free-market economics.
The Death of the West
By Patrick J. Buchanan
A provocative analysis of how dying populations and immigration pose challenges to Western civilization and national identity.
Suicide of a Superpower
By Patrick J. Buchanan
An examination of whether America can survive the challenges of the 21st century, from cultural fragmentation to imperial overstretch.
A Republic, Not an Empire
By Patrick J. Buchanan
A case for American non-interventionism and reclaiming the republic's founding vision against the ambitions of empire.
The Organon
By Aristotle
The foundational works of Aristotle on logic, comprising the Categories, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, and more — the basis of Western rational thought.
Reflections on the Revolution in France
By Edmund Burke
A landmark conservative critique of the French Revolution, defending tradition, ordered liberty, and the dangers of radical abstract idealism.
End the Fed
By Ron Paul
A New York Times bestseller exposing the Federal Reserve's harmful effects on the economy, advocating for sound money and monetary freedom.