BOOKS AND REFERENCES

Here is a brief list out of the many written works that I have found particularly interesting or insightful. Many, I agree with. Some, I disagree — but they were valuable in informing my views.

• The Declaration of Independence

• The U.S. Constitution (ideally read in sequence after the Declaration of Independence)

• The Federalist Papers

• The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

• On Liberty by John Stewart Mill

• A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

• 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Active Liberty by Justice Steven Breyer

• The Counterspeech Doctrine by Justice Louis Brandeis

• Drive by Daniel Pink

• More Than My Share of it All by Kelly Johnson

• Ending Medical Reversal by Vinayak Prasad, MD, MPH & Adam Cifu, MD

• Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

• The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

• Garner’s Modern American Usage by Bryan Garner

• Why are Jews Liberals by Norman Podhoretz

• A Brief History of Nearly Everything and A Brief History of Home by Bill Bryson