Books were at all times his chosen companions, said Ellen Wayles Randolph speaking of her grandfather Thomas Jefferson.

– Jefferson and Book

Research, not Leisure

I have read many of these books before but a due over is required for the sake of clarity. This is not a full list but a few to share.

• The Soul of the World by Sir Roger Scruton
• The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
• Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman
• Politics by Aristotle
• Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires
• On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
• After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
• Theology and the Religions: a Dialogue edited by Viggo Mortensen
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Eighteenth Century Europe: Tradition and Progress (1715-1789) by Isser Woloch
• Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
• A Secular Age by Charles Taylor