Matthias Adler on Independent Thinkers

It’s easy to spot the most ‘independent’ and ‘informed’ thinker in any group: he’ll be the one parroting the most conformist and ignorant nonsense.

– 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

Reading (2025):

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Two Years Before the Mast - R.H. Dana Jr.

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