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Common Sense

Thomas Paine, 1776

The pamphlet that ignited a revolution. Paine's clear, passionate argument for American independence sold over 500,000 copies and transformed colonial thinking. Written in plain language for common people, it remains one of the most influential political pamphlets ever published.

The Origins of Machine Intelligence

AI Foundations

Computing Machinery and Intelligence Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Alan Turing, 1950

Dartmouth AI Proposal McCarthy et al.

Dartmouth AI Proposal

McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, Shannon, 1956

Attention Is All You Need Vaswani et al.

Attention Is All You Need

Vaswani et al., 2017

Foundations of Thought

Ancient Classics

Apology of Socrates

Plato

Crito

Plato

De Amicitia (On Friendship)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

De Brevitate Vitae

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Satyricon

Petronius Arbiter

The Enchiridion (Handbook)

Epictetus

Voices of Freedom

Black History

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass

Atlanta Exposition Address

Booker T. Washington

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

A More Perfect Union

Barack Obama

Architecture of the West

Catholic Writers

Confessions

St. Augustine

City of God

St. Augustine

On Kingship

St. Thomas Aquinas

Selected Questions from the Summa

St. Thomas Aquinas

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas a Kempis

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Pensees

Blaise Pascal

The Idea of a University

John Henry Newman

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

John Henry Newman

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

St. Francis of Assisi

G. K. Chesterton

The Path to Rome

Hilaire Belloc

Lord of the World

Robert Hugh Benson

Introduction to the Devout Life

St. Francis de Sales

The Interior Castle

St. Teresa of Avila

The Puritan Errand

Colonial Classics

The Mayflower Compact 1620

The Mayflower Compact

Plymouth Colony, 1620

A Model of Christian Charity Winthrop

A Model of Christian Charity

John Winthrop

Magnalia Christi Americana Mather

Magnalia Christi Americana

Cotton Mather

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Jonathan Edwards

Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good Mather

Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good

Cotton Mather

Technology & Attention

The Digital Age

Digital Minimalism Newport

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

De Gouden Eeuw

Dutch Golden Age

Tractatus Spinoza

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Baruch Spinoza

Discours Descartes

Discourse on the Method

Rene Descartes

Mare Liberum Grotius

The Free Sea (Mare Liberum)

Hugo Grotius

Wit & Wisdom

Essays & Satire

The Way to Wealth

Benjamin Franklin

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Rules by Which a Great Empire...

Benjamin Franklin

Letters to His Son Chesterfield

Letters to His Son

Lord Chesterfield

Sartor Resartus Carlyle

Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle

Rip Van Winkle Irving

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Areopagitica Milton

Areopagitica

John Milton

Culture and Anarchy Arnold

Culture and Anarchy

Matthew Arnold

The Idea of a University Newman

The Idea of a University

John Henry Newman

The American Scholar Emerson

The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History of England Macaulay

The History of England

Lord Macaulay

The New Republic Mallock

The New Republic

W.H. Mallock

Birth of a Nation

Founding Fathers

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

Farewell Address

George Washington

The Federalist No. 51

James Madison

The American Crisis

Thomas Paine

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Patrick Henry

Thoughts on Government

John Adams

First Inaugural Address

Thomas Jefferson

The Rights of the Colonists

Samuel Adams

The Lyceum Address Lincoln

The Lyceum Address

Abraham Lincoln

The Moralist Tradition

French Classics

Maximes La Rochefoucauld

Maximes

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pensees Pascal

Pensees

Blaise Pascal

Il Rinascimento

Italian Renaissance

Il Principe Machiavelli

Il Principe (The Prince)

Niccolo Machiavelli

Oratio de Dignitate Pico

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Posteritati Petrarch

Letter to Posterity

Francesco Petrarch

Il Libro del Cortegiano Castiglione

The Book of the Courtier

Baldassare Castiglione

The Examined Life

Philosophy

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde

The Rebel

Albert Camus

The Advancement of Learning Bacon

The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon

On Heroes Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

Is Life Worth Living? Mallock

Is Life Worth Living?

W.H. Mallock

The Art of Governance

Politics

Federalist No. 10 Madison

The Federalist No. 10

James Madison

Conscience of a Conservative Goldwater

The Conscience of a Conservative

Barry Goldwater

Reflections on the Revolution Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

The Strenuous Life

Theodore Roosevelt

A Critical Examination of Socialism Mallock

A Critical Examination of Socialism

W.H. Mallock

The Limits of Pure Democracy Mallock

The Limits of Pure Democracy

W.H. Mallock

The Inner Light

Quaker Classics

Some Fruits of Solitude

William Penn

No Cross, No Crown Penn

No Cross, No Crown

William Penn

Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes Woolman

Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes

John Woolman

Journal (Selections) Fox

Journal (Selections)

George Fox

A Plea for the Poor Woolman

A Plea for the Poor

John Woolman

Iberian Wisdom

Spanish Classics

The Art of Worldly Wisdom Gracian

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Baltasar Gracian

Coplas on the Death of His Father Manrique

Coplas on the Death of His Father

Jorge Manrique