List three easy to read books that you feel smarter after reading

[MNDude]

Sometimes you can feel like you can get more out of reading a single book then you have an entire semester of college. Some of these books might be surprisingly simple to read. Which three books made you feel much more educated and enriched after reading them?

[Big Red Badger]

I gave those out as gifts for Christmas once...never got any feed back....
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[Big Red Badger]

Thats funny how the brain works

[4Liberty]

[drSteve78]

H2G2 movie was unwatchable. Analog text about science fiction/comedy is an ultimate irony.

[kiryandil]

Have you read the Game of Thrones series?

Tolkien [a philologist] wrote better books, more literate and fascinating reads.

He was pals with C.S. Lewis [Chronicles of Narnia series/Perelandra series].

The initials thingee comes from old school English usages, not snootiness. He fought in WWI and was an Oxford professor of letters.

[31R1O]

Economics in One Lesson-Henry Hazlitt, Republic by Plato, Meditation on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

[who_would_fardels_bear]

There used to be an article on 'Objectivism' at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that was written by Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Objectivism is generally not well-respected by other philosophers, which is something Brook mentioned in his article. I guess some philosopher got upset and had it removed. There is, however, an article on Ayn Rand where they discuss objectivism.

Here is a link to Chambers's review of Atlas Shrugged. He does get pretty tough on her:

Big Sister is Watching You

One of his main criticisms is that her philosophy is too simplistic and black-and-white. I used to be a libertarian, but I've come to believe that libertarianism is actually more utopian than even communism and so is a false hope.

At least the communists realized that people aren't made for a communist "utopia" and so there had to be a period they referred to as "dictatorship of the proletariat" in which they would supposedly transform humans into the sort that would be able to live in an anarcho-syndicalist wonderland.

A "dictatorship of the non-entrepreneurial" would just not fly with libertarians and their NAP, so there would never be a critical mass of people who would want to, or be equipped to, thrive in a libertarian world.

Instead we get libertarian half-measures like tax cuts without budget cuts, lax immigration policy without elimination of welfare, or a free market in political candidates that leads to a monopolization of lawmaking by wealthy corporations who use their lobbying power to restrict markets in their favor.

[rlmorel]

This was one of hers I like:

[ansel12]

That is pretty incredible, you should occasionally find an excuse to post something of hers that you think fits into a thread or maybe even do a thread of her works if appropriate.

[Rockingham]

The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. When I read it in college, this magisterial survey of major conservative figures was a bracing revelation of conservatism as deeply rooted in Western history and not a concoction of Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley as a reaction to the New Deal.

[alexander_busek]

Extremely easy to read, well-written, “Reasons to Vote Democrat”

Is it a companion piece to Swift's A Modest Proposal? Something in the vein of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters?

Or does it consist of 230 blank pages?

Regards,

[Pocketdoor]

Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Winning Through Intimidation.

QBQ The Question Behind the Question.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

[RoosterRedux]

Bfl

[aspasia]

Something charming about that. Thanks for sharing.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Art of War, Sun Tzu

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum < /s>

-PJ

[SisterK]

The Bible
The Unseen Hand by Ralph Epperson
Unintended Consequences by John Ross

[EQAndyBuzz]

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Taught me about what the communists are planning, know what the signs are and how to counter them. Also, the 45 goals of Communism is my go to for metrics on the success of the Communist plan.

[trebb]

Stranger in a Strange Land - by Heinlein

[mewzilla]

Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics.

[mewzilla]

The Screwtape Letters,by C. S. Lewis.

Any dictionary.