Our Readings

A curated collection of foundational texts in economics, politics, philosophy, and history that shape the intellectual framework of the program.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Discourses on Livy
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ulysses
James Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alligheri
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Othello
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Empire
Niall Ferguson
Orientalism
Edward Said
Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama