"A nation that does not educate in liberty will not long preserve it
and will not even know when it is lost."—Alan Charles Kors
Readings and resources to help balance a biased curriculum:
Plato, Apology, Republic, Symposium, Laws
Aristotle, Politics, Rhetoric, and Nicomachean Ethics
Euclid’s Elements
John Milton, Areopagitica,
John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
Selections from Cato’s Letters
Autobiography of Ben Franklin
John Stuart Mill “On Liberty”
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Selections from the Old and New Testaments
Magna Carta (1215)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Articles of Confederation (1777)
The Constitution of the United States (1787)
The Bill of Rights (1791)
Friedrich Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty and Road to Serfdom
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago