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Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
by Plato
Credits: Audio Download
These four dialogues present the trial, the imprisonment, and the execution of Socrates who his friend Phaedo said was “the wisest, best, and most righteous person I have ever known.”
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.
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Mill's On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Credits: Audio Download
Mill's thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative, liberal, and radical politicians.
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The Founding Documents of the United States of America
by Thomas Jefferson
Credits: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud.com is proud to present this audio collection entitled The Founding Documents of the United States of America. These documents represent key points in the founding of the U.S. government.
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Kant's "Toward Lasting Peace"
by Immanuel Kant
Credits: Audio Download
Kant’s "Toward Lasting Peace" is best known for the idea of a league of nations that could bring “an end to all hostilities,” but what is most important is its ability to probe fundamental principles.
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The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
Credits: Audio CD
Cunning, instructive, and amoral, this controversial bestseller distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws.
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The Art of Seduction
by Robert Greene
Credits: Audio CD
When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power...
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Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
Credits: Audio CD
George Washington wrote, "I find that Common Sense is working a powerful change there (Virginia) in the minds of many men."
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Credits: MP3 CD
The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC and continued intermittently for twenty-seven years...
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Whose Freedom?
by George Lakoff
Credits: Audio CD
Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that the conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion.
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Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
Credits: Audio CD
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.
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Marx's Das Kapital
by Francis Wheen
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx’s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece.
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God's Politics
by Jim Wallis
Credits: Audio CD
God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our religious communities and our government more accountable to key values....
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Learning about Liberty Part 2: The Cato University Home Study Course
Credits: Audio CD
When was the last time you were truly energized by ideas? In our era of WiFi, high def, high res, compressed digital, podcast, and video clips of 24-hour news channels and sound bites, how can you gain calm perspective and thoughtful understanding?
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Learning about Liberty: The Cato University Home Study Course
Credits: MP3 CD
When was the last time you were truly energized by ideas? In our era of WiFi, high def, high res, compressed digital, podcast, and video clips of 24-hour news channels and sound bites, how can you gain calm perspective and thoughtful understanding?
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Learning about Liberty Part 1: The Cato University Home Study Course
Credits: Audio CD
When was the last time you were truly energized by ideas? In our era of WiFi, high def, high res, compressed digital, podcast, and video clips of 24-hour news channels and sound bites, how can you gain calm perspective and thoughtful understanding?
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The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
Credits: Audio Cassette
First published as a pamphlet in 1850, The Law is relevant today because the same situation exists in America now as in France of 1848. The same Socialist-Communist plans and ideas that were adopted in France are now sweeping America.
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A Conflict of Visions
by Thomas Sowell
Credits: Audio Cassette
Sowell explains that most people have one of two contrasting visions, “constrained” and “unconstrained,” described in terms we recognize as associated with the political Right and political Left.
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The Declaration of Independence & the Constitution of the United States
Credits: Audio CD
The two most treasured documents of American freedom together on one audiobook.
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