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Book List

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? A Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need For Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments (An Uncle Eric Book) by Richard J. Maybury

The Thousand Year War in the Mideast: How It Affects You Today (An Uncle Eric Book) by Richard J. Maybury

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky

Latter Day Liberty or Latter Day Responsibility by Connor Boyack

1913 by Oliver DeMille

The Law by Bastiat

Articles

"Persuasion vs. Force" by Mark and Jo Ann Skousen

"Economics Begins at Home" by Tobias J. Lanz (or some other good article on distributism or decentralization)

"Property"

Cicero, De Officiis, book 3: Good vs Expedient

"The Structure of Power in American Society" - C. Wright Mills

Ron Paul's Farewell Address to Congress

Immanuel Kant, excerpts from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals and The Critique of Practical Reason.

Manufacturing Consent: a propaganda model by Noam Chomsky

The Proper Role of Government by Ezra Taft Benson

The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner by Ezra Taft Benson

Videos

Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media (hulu, gvid)

Websites

latterdayconservative.com has many good articles and audio speeches.

More Articles

Postcards from horizontal world: describes new ways of orgranizing where the people take responsibility to build the new reality, rather than making demands which confirm the power of the state. "I am a firm believer in the power of direct action and basically creating conditions where one would force the state to come to the negotiating table, and consequently making these changes, rather than the framework of demands which is perhaps a slightly less passive form of begging or petitioning, which I think often re-legitimizes the power of the state.”

This lecture from hillsdale college describes the Greeks political theories and how their reservations about democracy are eerily similar to our problems of today.

Interview with Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva: These women have answers for all the world's problems, namely, that there is no one answer. We must all do our individual parts, for example, by raising our own gardens, etc.

Socialism and Capitalism: competing and complementary visions of the beautiful civil society, an essay draft by Arthur Peña on cooperation between competing worldviews. "Getting the parties to at least catch a glimpse of the beauty of the other side’s world view--as that other side sees it--humanizes the enemy.  “Those people” are no longer heartless monsters seeking the destruction of all that is good and true and beautiful;  rather, they are people in love with a beautiful vision (which may or may not be delusional)."