Kathleen writes “In addition to reading I love to read about reading or, in this case, what people think they should have read–but haven’t.
New meme going around…Literary Lacunae. Here are a few lists. [The sources also include explanations and tags to others].
Matthew Yglesias : 1) Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations; 2) David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature; 3) Theda Skocpol’s Protecting Soldiers and Mothers; 4) Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life; 5) Thomas Frank, What’s The Matter With Kansas?.
Libertarian bibliophile: 1.The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin; 2. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking; 3. Anything That’s Peaceful, by Leonard Read;4.The God of the Machine, by Isabel Paterson;.
5. Give Me a Break, by John Stossel
Notes from the Lounge: 1.Law’s Empire by Ronald Dworkin; 2.A Theory of Justice by John Rawls; 3.Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; 4.The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow:; 5) Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The Fly Bottle: 1) Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; 2) Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons. ; 3) Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; 4) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.; 5) Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia.”
Not Stossel
I’d read the complete works of Alfred E. Newman backwards before I read anything by John Stossel. The man turns my stomach, ugh!