Political Science

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

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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)

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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 …

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…

The Life-Story of a Russian Exile

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Marie Sukloff


Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activ…

Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society

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Thomas Hobbes


De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…

From Dictatorship to Democracy (version 2)

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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…

The Masque of Anarchy

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…

Wellington

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George Hooper


Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…

There Are Realistic Alternatives

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Gene Sharp


Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…

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…

Six Months In Mexico

Read by James K. White


Nellie Bly


This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

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Various


This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeche…

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

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Will Durant


In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Vol…

Staatsvertrag betreffend die Wiederherstellung eines unabhängigen und demokrati…

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Unknown


Der Staatsvertrag betreffend die Wiederherstellung eines unabhängigen und demokratischen Österreich, wurde am 15. Mai 1955 in Wien…

John Brown

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W. E. B. Du Bois


This is a moving and deeply felt biography of abolitionist John Brown, which defends its subject against the popular notion of him as a delu…

Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…

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Henry Cabot Lodge


A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…

A Preface to Politics

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Walter Lippmann


This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pr…

The Insurrection in Dublin

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James Stephens


The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win ind…

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