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ARTICLES
A History of the Central American Refugees
What Agency Means in the Era of Automation
Romance Wars: Brontë v. Austen
Might is Right: The Melian Dialogue
Analisa Academia: My Top Reads of 2025
Just Euthanize the Pitbulls
The Honest Broker: The 10 Most Popular Articles of the Year
6 Interesting Facts About the Scablands (Washington State)
Why I’m Leaving Harvard
Everything You Think You Know about the Belgian Congo Is Wrong
FREE ONLINE COURSE
From Homer to Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Western Canon
GREAT AUTHORS - BC
Kagemni
Djedefhor/Hardedef
Ptahhotep
Unknown in North Saqqara
Sargon of Akkad
Ur-Nammu
Unknown near Uruk
Khety III/Wahkare Khety
Dua-Kheti
Sumerian Bard
Egyptian Shakespeare
Hammurabi
Babylonian Bard
Unknown Babylonian Authors c. 1700 BC
Unknown Babylonian Authors c. 1646 BC
Moses
Phoroneus
Joshua
Phineus
Unknown in Eridu
Cadmus
High Priest Ilmilku
Sanchuniathon
Linus of Thrace
Orpheus
Musaeus
Amenope
Author of Wenamun
Samuel
David
Solomon
Obadiah
Joel
Jonah
Hosea
Amos
Micah
Isaiah
Homer
Hesiod
Archilochus
Alcman
Zephaniah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Jeremiah
Baruch ben Neriah
Thales of Miletus
Pittacus of Mytilene
Bias of Priene
Solon of Athens
Cleobulus of Lindos
Periander of Corinth
Myson of Chenae
Anacharsis the Scythian
Chilon of Sparta
Sappho
Pindar
Ezekiel
Daniel
Stesichorus
Aesop
Haggai
Zechariah
Phrynichus
Pythagoras of Samos
Lysis of Taras
Heraclitus
Laozi
Confucius
Aeschylus
Ezra
Nehemiah
Malachi
Sophocles
Euripedes
Thucydides
Herodotus
Antiochus of Syracuse
Aristophanes
Hippocrates
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Theophrastus
Pseudo-Callisthenes
Epicurus
Menander
Euclid
Clearchus of Soli
Apollonius of Rhodes
Archimedes
Ennius
Apollonius of Perga
Quintus Fabius Pictor
Ben Sira
Plautus
Hermes Trismegistus
Terence
Polybius
Sima Qiam
Catullus
Andronicus of Rhodes
Ankhsheshonq
Cicero
Julius Caesar
Lucretius
Vitruvius
Virgil
Horace
Diodorus Siculus
Marcus Terentius Varro
Propertius
Livy
VIDEOS
The Somali Minnesota Tax Fraud Exposed A Way Bigger Problem
How to Change Your Life in 2026 with Reverse Goal Setting
Dan Koe: How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People in 2026
Dark Energy Is Getting Weaker, and It Changes Everything
The Tax Revolt, the System Crack, & Why Bitcoin's Rise is Inevitable in 2026
Why the West Is Collapsing Right Now
The Complete History of Iran/Persia
Edinburgh 1700s (AI Reconstruction)
Norm MacDonald: The Comedian On The Outside
Did Odysseus Really Exist?
GREAT AUTHORS - 1 to 1619
Ovid
Augustus
Jesus
Philo of Alexandria
Seneca the Younger
Matthew the Apostle
Paul the Apostle
Luke the Evangelist
Petronius
Mark the Evangelist
Gaius Musonius Rufus
Josephus
Pliny the Elder
John the Apostle
Statius
Quintilian
Tacitus
Suetonius
Plutarch
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Apostolic Fathers
Juvenal
Pliny the Younger
Epictetus
Arrian
Marcion of Sinope
Claudius Ptolemy
Lucian
Apuleius
Marcus Aurelius
Galen
Tatian the Assyrian
Tertullian of Carthage
Lucius Flavius Philostratus
Cassius Dio
Diogenes Laertius
Porphyry
Plotinus
Constantine
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo
Martianus Capella
John Cassian
Macrobius
Priscus of Panium
Pope Gregory I
Boethius
Saint Benedict
Cassiodorus
Venerable Bede
Einhard
Notker the Stammerer
Alcuin
Li Bai
Du Fu
Sedulius Scottus
Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf's Poet
Domesday Book Scribes
Anselm of Canterbury
Njáls Saga Recorder
Turold
Gloss Commentators
Geoffrey of Monmouth
John of Salisbury
Saxo Grammaticus
Poet of the Nibelungenlied
Stephen Langton
Thomas of Celano
Thomas Aquinas
Jacobus de Varagine
Theodore Metochites
Sir Thomas Malory
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Gawain Poet
Luo Guanzhong
Chaucer
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
Leon Battistta Alberti
Christopher Columbus
Erasmus
Thomas More
Martin Luther
Baldesar Castiglione
Machiavelli
François Rabelais
Anglican Scribes
Giorgio Vasari
Ferdinand Columbus
Michel de Montaigne
Catholic Scribes
Wu Cheng'en
Jin Ping Mei
Francis Bacon
James I of England and Ireland
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Saint Francis de Sales
PODCASTS
Charlotte Mason Through High School
Our Literary Lives of 2025
King John and the Magna Carta
Head and Shoulders by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bitcoin Way with Tony Yazbeck
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Fitt 4 with Chivalry Guild and Banished Kent
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
Ian Plimer: Sceptical Always
Exploring Place in Regal Rome (Part 2)
Homer's Odyssey and Us
GREAT AUTHORS - 1620 to PRESENT
Settlers of New Plymouth
John Winthrop
John Milton
Anne Bradstreet
Thomas Hobbes
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Joseph Addison
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Samuel Johnson
Francis Hutcheson
Jonathan Swift
Great Awakening Influencers
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
David Fordyce
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edmund Burke
Adam Smith
Laurence Sterne
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Immanuel Kant
Publius (Pseudonym)
Abbé Sieyès
Alexander Hamilton
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cao Xueqin
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Arthur Schopenhauer
Walter Scott
Washington Irving
Benjamin Constant
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexis de Tocqueville
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexandre Dumas
Frederick Douglass
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Karl Marx
Otto von Bismarck
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George Fitzhugh
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Dickens
Abraham Lincoln
Sam Houston
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jules Verne
Nietzsche
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Robert Louis Stevenson
Andrew Carnegie
Carl Menger
Andrew Fleming West
Henry Adams
Frederick Jackson Turner
William Graham Sumner
William Jennings Bryan
Albert Beveridge
Joseph Conrad
Mark Twain
Booker T. Washington
Vladimir Lenin
Edith Wharton
George W. Plunkitt
G.K. Chesterton
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Woodrow Wilson
Murray Rothbard
Robert Frost
Marcel Proust
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
T. S. Eliot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Booth Tarkington
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Winston Churchill
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Max Weber
Calvin Coolidge
Adolf Hitler
Willa Cather
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Conrad Aiken
Ludwig von Mises
George Orwell
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
John Maynard Keynes
Charles Lindbergh
Albert Camus
C.S. Lewis
Friedrich Hayek
Walter Lippmann
Douglass Adair
Harry S. Truman
George F. Kennan
Henry Hazlitt
Ernest Hemingway
Herbert Butterfield
J. R. R. Tolkien
Flannery O'Connor
T.S. Eliot
Josef Pieper
M. Stanton Evans
Ronald Reagan
Milton Friedman
Sir Karl Popper
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Frank Herbert
Michael Collins
Ron Paul
Tom Wolfe
Nick Szabo
J. K. Rowling
Satoshi Nakamoto
Scott Adams
Saifedean Ammous
Reading for betterment
ARTICLES
A History of the Central American Refugees
What Agency Means in the Era of Automation
Romance Wars: Brontë v. Austen
Might is Right: The Melian Dialogue
Analisa Academia: My Top Reads of 2025
Just Euthanize the Pitbulls
The Honest Broker: The 10 Most Popular Articles of the Year
6 Interesting Facts About the Scablands (Washington State)
Why I’m Leaving Harvard
Everything You Think You Know about the Belgian Congo Is Wrong
FREE ONLINE COURSE
From Homer to Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Western Canon
VIDEOS
The Somali Minnesota Tax Fraud Exposed A Way Bigger Problem
How to Change Your Life in 2026 with Reverse Goal Setting
Dan Koe: How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People in 2026
Dark Energy Is Getting Weaker, and It Changes Everything
The Tax Revolt, the System Crack, & Why Bitcoin's Rise is Inevitable in 2026
Why the West Is Collapsing Right Now
The Complete History of Iran/Persia
Edinburgh 1700s (AI Reconstruction)
Norm MacDonald: The Comedian On The Outside
Did Odysseus Really Exist?
PODCASTS
Charlotte Mason Through High School
Our Literary Lives of 2025
King John and the Magna Carta
Head and Shoulders by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bitcoin Way with Tony Yazbeck
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Fitt 4 with Chivalry Guild and Banished Kent
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
Ian Plimer: Sceptical Always
Exploring Place in Regal Rome (Part 2)
Homer's Odyssey and Us
GREAT AUTHORS - BC
Kagemni
Djedefhor/Hardedef
Ptahhotep
Unknown in North Saqqara
Sargon of Akkad
Ur-Nammu
Unknown near Uruk
Khety III/Wahkare Khety
Dua-Kheti
Sumerian Bard
Egyptian Shakespeare
Hammurabi
Babylonian Bard
Unknown Babylonian Authors c. 1700 BC
Unknown Babylonian Authors c. 1646 BC
Moses
Phoroneus
Joshua
Phineus
Unknown in Eridu
Cadmus
High Priest Ilmilku
Sanchuniathon
Linus of Thrace
Orpheus
Musaeus
Amenope
Author of Wenamun
Samuel
David
Solomon
Obadiah
Joel
Jonah
Hosea
Amos
Micah
Isaiah
Homer
Hesiod
Archilochus
Alcman
Zephaniah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Jeremiah
Baruch ben Neriah
Thales of Miletus
Pittacus of Mytilene
Bias of Priene
Solon of Athens
Cleobulus of Lindos
Periander of Corinth
Myson of Chenae
Anacharsis the Scythian
Chilon of Sparta
Sappho
Pindar
Ezekiel
Daniel
Stesichorus
Aesop
Haggai
Zechariah
Phrynichus
Pythagoras of Samos
Lysis of Taras
Heraclitus
Laozi
Confucius
Aeschylus
Ezra
Nehemiah
Malachi
Sophocles
Euripedes
Thucydides
Herodotus
Antiochus of Syracuse
Aristophanes
Hippocrates
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Theophrastus
Pseudo-Callisthenes
Epicurus
Menander
Euclid
Clearchus of Soli
Apollonius of Rhodes
Archimedes
Ennius
Apollonius of Perga
Quintus Fabius Pictor
Ben Sira
Plautus
Hermes Trismegistus
Terence
Polybius
Sima Qiam
Catullus
Andronicus of Rhodes
Ankhsheshonq
Cicero
Julius Caesar
Lucretius
Vitruvius
Virgil
Horace
Diodorus Siculus
Marcus Terentius Varro
Propertius
Livy
GREAT AUTHORS - 1 to 1619
Ovid
Augustus
Jesus
Philo of Alexandria
Seneca the Younger
Matthew the Apostle
Paul the Apostle
Luke the Evangelist
Petronius
Mark the Evangelist
Gaius Musonius Rufus
Josephus
Pliny the Elder
John the Apostle
Statius
Quintilian
Tacitus
Suetonius
Plutarch
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Apostolic Fathers
Juvenal
Pliny the Younger
Epictetus
Arrian
Marcion of Sinope
Claudius Ptolemy
Lucian
Apuleius
Marcus Aurelius
Galen
Tatian the Assyrian
Tertullian of Carthage
Lucius Flavius Philostratus
Cassius Dio
Diogenes Laertius
Porphyry
Plotinus
Constantine
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo
Martianus Capella
John Cassian
Macrobius
Priscus of Panium
Pope Gregory I
Boethius
Saint Benedict
Cassiodorus
Venerable Bede
Einhard
Notker the Stammerer
Alcuin
Li Bai
Du Fu
Sedulius Scottus
Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf's Poet
Domesday Book Scribes
Anselm of Canterbury
Njáls Saga Recorder
Turold
Gloss Commentators
Geoffrey of Monmouth
John of Salisbury
Saxo Grammaticus
Poet of the Nibelungenlied
Stephen Langton
Thomas of Celano
Thomas Aquinas
Jacobus de Varagine
Theodore Metochites
Sir Thomas Malory
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Gawain Poet
Luo Guanzhong
Chaucer
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
Leon Battistta Alberti
Christopher Columbus
Erasmus
Thomas More
Martin Luther
Baldesar Castiglione
Machiavelli
François Rabelais
Anglican Scribes
Giorgio Vasari
Ferdinand Columbus
Michel de Montaigne
Catholic Scribes
Wu Cheng'en
Jin Ping Mei
Francis Bacon
James I of England and Ireland
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Saint Francis de Sales
GREAT AUTHORS - 1620 to PRESENT
Settlers of New Plymouth
John Winthrop
John Milton
Anne Bradstreet
Thomas Hobbes
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Joseph Addison
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Samuel Johnson
Francis Hutcheson
Jonathan Swift
Great Awakening Influencers
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
David Fordyce
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edmund Burke
Adam Smith
Laurence Sterne
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Immanuel Kant
Publius (Pseudonym)
Abbé Sieyès
Alexander Hamilton
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cao Xueqin
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Arthur Schopenhauer
Walter Scott
Washington Irving
Benjamin Constant
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexis de Tocqueville
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexandre Dumas
Frederick Douglass
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Karl Marx
Otto von Bismarck
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George Fitzhugh
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Dickens
Abraham Lincoln
Sam Houston
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jules Verne
Nietzsche
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Robert Louis Stevenson
Andrew Carnegie
Carl Menger
Andrew Fleming West
Henry Adams
Frederick Jackson Turner
William Graham Sumner
William Jennings Bryan
Albert Beveridge
Joseph Conrad
Mark Twain
Booker T. Washington
Vladimir Lenin
Edith Wharton
George W. Plunkitt
G.K. Chesterton
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Woodrow Wilson
Murray Rothbard
Robert Frost
Marcel Proust
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
T. S. Eliot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Booth Tarkington
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Winston Churchill
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Max Weber
Calvin Coolidge
Adolf Hitler
Willa Cather
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Conrad Aiken
Ludwig von Mises
George Orwell
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
John Maynard Keynes
Charles Lindbergh
Albert Camus
C.S. Lewis
Friedrich Hayek
Walter Lippmann
Douglass Adair
Harry S. Truman
George F. Kennan
Henry Hazlitt
Ernest Hemingway
Herbert Butterfield
J. R. R. Tolkien
Flannery O'Connor
T.S. Eliot
Josef Pieper
M. Stanton Evans
Ronald Reagan
Milton Friedman
Sir Karl Popper
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Frank Herbert
Michael Collins
Ron Paul
Tom Wolfe
Nick Szabo
J. K. Rowling
Satoshi Nakamoto
Scott Adams
Saifedean Ammous