Ten Books Every Student Should Read in College

HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Week of June 2, 2003 | 28 distinguished scholars and university professors

[cornelis]

You checked out Aquinas at Dumb Ox Books?

[LiteKeeper]

These are available from Summit Ministries, dedicated to equipping young people to enter the university and stand on their own two-feet.

Understanding The Times: The Religious Worldviews of Our Day and the Search for Truth
David A. Noebel
Harvest House/1994
ISBN: 1565072685

The Battle for Truth
David A. Noebel
Harvest House/2001
ISBN: 0736907823

The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
Simon & Schuster/1987
ISBN: 0671657151

The Closing of the American Heart
Ronald H. Nash
Probe Books/1990
ISBN: 0945241119

Children At Risk
James Dobson & Gary L. Bauer
Word Publishing/1994
ISBN: 0849935849

Mind Siege
Tim LaHaye & David A. Noebel
Word Publishing/2001
ISBN: 0849916720

The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief
George Marsden
Oxford University Press/1994
ISBN: 0195070461

The Great Evangelical Disaster
Francis A. Schaeffer
Crossway Books/1984
ISBN: 0891073086

Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave
Dave Breese
Moody Press/1990
ISBN: 0802484484

Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences the Red Queen and the Grand Scheme
Judith A. Reisman
Institution for Media Education/1998
ISBN: 0966662407

Destructive Generation
Peter Collier & David Horowitz
Free Press/1996
ISBN: 0684826410

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Gender on Campus
Dinesh D'Souza
The Free Press/1991
ISBN: 0029081009

Dictatorship of Virtue
Richard Bernstein
Vintage Books/1994
ISBN: 0679743988

Deconstructing the Left
Peter Collier & David Horowitz
Center for the Study of Popular/1991
ISBN: 0819183156

Tenured Radicals
Roger Kimball
Ivan R. Dee/1998
ISBN: 1566631955

The Disuniting of America
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc/1998
ISBN: 0393045803

The Way Things Ought to Be
Rush Limbaugh
Pocket Books/1993
ISBN: 9993249114

See, I Told You So
Rush Limbaugh
Zondervan/1993
ISBN: 067187120X

Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong
William Kirkpatrick
Simon & Schuster/1992
ISBN: 0671870734

Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogma
Thomas Sowell
MacMillan/1993
ISBN: 0029303303

Impostors in the Temple: American Intellectuals are Destroying Our Universities and Cheating Our Students of Their Future
Martin Anderson
Hoover Institute Press/1996
ISBN: 0817994424

The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy
Nancy R. Pearcey & Charles B. Thaxton
Crossway Books/1994
ISBN: 0891077669

Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education
Phillip E. Johnson
InterVarsity Press/1995
ISBN: 0830819290

Slouching Towards Gomorrah
Robert H. Bork
Harper Collins/1996
ISBN: 0060391634

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Michael Denton
Adler & Adler/1985
ISBN: 091756152X

Darwin’s Black Box
Michael J. Behe
Free Press/1996
ISBN: 0684827549

Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
Richard Milton
Inner Traditions Intl Ltd/1997
ISBN: 0892817321

America’s Thirty Years War
Balint Vazsonyi
Regnery Pub/1998
ISBN: 0895263548

Cloning of the American Mind
B.K. Eakman
Huntington House Pub/1998
ISBN: 1563841479

I would add:
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
Phillip E. Johnson
Intervarsity Press; (August 1997)
ISBN: 0830813608

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
Jonathan Wells
Regnery Publishing; (January 2002)
ISBN: 0895262002

In the Beginning Was Information
Werner Gitt
Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung; (December 2000)
ISBN: 3893972552
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[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[Remedy]

I've read most of 6 of them. Can I get a passing grade?

Yes, and change your <1/1,000,000th% to > = 60% , since you can figure out the rest.

[Aquinasfan]

You checked out Aquinas at Dumb Ox Books?

Thanks for the tip 8-)

[MattinNJ]

I can't believe it took to post 21 for Wealth of Nations. I would argue that Adam Smith's books and teachings are as fundamental to our society as the Bible or the Constitution. Obviously the Bible laid our moral and religous foundation and the Constitution established our nation as a republic, but the engine that drives this great nation is capitalism.

[Hank Rearden]

I would add one more text to the list and that is Atlas Shrugged.

Absolutely. The only novel ever written that really needs an index.

[Chemist_Geek]

Then imagine, if you will, how successful you would be in influencing public opinion by writing and printing such essays today. Each one would have to be condenses into two or 3 paragraphs, or no one would read them. And the references to other classic works in them would never work at all.

How sad, but true.

[Remedy]

BIASED WHINE NOTED.

[RightWhale]

Cicero is the kind of person who can advise a person how to govern an unruly province one minute and how to lay in a stone colonnade in the garden the next. What is it? It's that individual men and women actually do these things. Somebody has to decide and mistakes are expensive. A person has to be ready to fill in at any time in anything. You never know what you will be required or asked to do.

[widowithfoursons]

As an aside, I could never figure out why Cicero was labeled a Stoic. He was certainly not a follower of Zeno. He was full of passion and emotion. I wonder who first called him a Stoic? (A detractor, no doubt).

[KarlInOhio]

The Law by Frederic Bastiat.

Bastiat makes to much sense to be really considered French, therefore the boycott shouldn't apply.

[Britton J Wingfield]

They forgot to include "Starship Troopers" by R.A. Heinlein.

[KantianBurke]

bump

[KarlInOhio]

They forgot to include "Starship Troopers" by R.A. Heinlein.

You could just watch the movie. :-)

[EdReform]

BTTT for later...

[aardvark1]

No Tolstoy? No Dostoyevsky?

It is truly a dilemma to try to figure out which books are worth one's time...but a pleasant dilemma.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Ack, that movie was horrid.

[hobbes1]

additions. 2.

Witness/Whittaker Chambers
The Way The World Works/Wanniski

[Jason_b]

"The Law" by F. Bastiat should have been included.