Matthias Adler on Activist Principles

Any principle elevated to dogma will become hypocrisy. This is something that activists seem surprised to discover about themselves and their causes no matter how many times they discover it.

– Matthias Adler

Reading List, 2024

Read (2024):

Learning How to Learn - Idries Shah (review)
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan (review)
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
To Build a Castle - Vladimir Bukovsky
The Jefferson Bible - Thomas Jefferson (ed.)
The Cyropaedia - Xenophon (review)
The Crowd - Gustave le Bon (review)
Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism - Joshua Muravchik
Red Color News Soldier - Li Zhensheng
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Not Even Trying - Bruce G. Charlton (review)
The Psychology of Revolution - Gustave le Bon
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer - Loren Graham
Life at the Bottom - Theodore Dalrymple
The Pursuit of the Millennium - Norman Cohn

Read (2025):

Parallel Lives - Plutarch
Range - David Epstein
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
The Moulding of Communists - Frank S. Meyer
The Arabian Nights
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Two Years Before the Mast - R.H. Dana Jr.
The Partnership Charter - David Gage

Reading (2025):

Broken Money - Lyn Alden
On Liberty - J.S. Mill