This is the textbook that Regis University used for my Advanced Data-structures class. The author, Larry Nyhoff, provides ample explanation, examples, and code to make the subject palatable. Moreover, he also helps the student (i.e. me) to see patterns where efficiency and simplicity of code merge. However, I didn’t find everything to be sunshine and [...]

Today I listened to the Librivox recording of Anthem by Ayn Rand (1st edition). In it a dystopian future where most traces of individualism have been eradicated from the world and replaced by a heavy-handed collectivism. Anthem is clearly a warning against the aggressive, yeasty, and dangerous nature of forced collectivism (i.e. through the state). [...]

This classic piece of fiction by CS Lewis is clever, funny, and thought provoking.

The other day I listened to Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law” (originally published in 1850) which I downloaded from Free Audio.org. The Law presents a series of compelling arguments for natural rights, liberty, and private property ownership in a manner that should make sense to the common man, politician, novelist, and even theologian. The author of [...]

Congressman Ron Paul’s “End the Fed” is a case against that most enigmatic of government institutions: The Federal Reserve. Although the book is written in English, Congressman Paul nevertheless educates the reader on basic economic history, the conditions leading up to the creation of the Fed, how it operates, and the impacts of, and the [...]

Easily one of the most digestible works in Christian Apologetics ever written.

Joshua Cooper Ramo’s The Age of the Unthinkable investigates the necessity of a dynamical approach to political systems. What the book lacks in rigor is made up for with compelling narratives, personal experiences, and metaphors. In the midst of this NPR-paced volume, Ramo’s point is actually fairly simple: all political systems were built when a [...]

A title such as “Liberal Fascism” may seem like an oxymoron, but Jonah Goldberg makes a compelling case that fascism was not a phenomenon of the right, but of the left. As shocking of a presumption as this might be, Goldberg takes a well-researched approach to the facts and an explicit approach to his conclusions. [...]

For anyone feels the need to critique culture, I think that that The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce is required reading. Not because it will help your critique, but because Lewis will challenge your views. It’s something worth reading (or listening to) several times, truly a classic.