Reading & Watching Library
These are the books I have read and the videos I keep coming back to. I am not telling you what to think — I am sharing what made me think.
Triggernometry — Off The Fence
France Riots: Are We Next?
France burned. Cars overturned, neighborhoods torched, police overwhelmed — and the political class scrambled to explain it away. Triggernometry's Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin ask the question no one in polite media will say out loud: could it happen here? The answer, if you are paying attention to what is happening in our own cities, our own schools, and our own immigration policy, is not reassuring. This is the conversation the mainstream refuses to have. Watch it.
💡 Why I am watching this: What happened in France is not a foreign story. It is a preview. When you import a culture faster than you can integrate it, and when your government punishes anyone who raises a concern, you get exactly this. Minnesota deserves a representative who will say that out loud.
Lionel Shriver
Novelist & Cultural Critic
Lionel Shriver is one of the sharpest, most fearless voices writing today. Best known for We Need to Talk About Kevin, she has spent the last decade saying out loud what most commentators are too timid to say — that mass immigration carries real costs, cultural and economic, that polite society refuses to honestly account for. Her essays and fiction cut through the sentimentality and demand we look at consequences, not just intentions.
Why I am reading her: Immigration is the defining issue of our era, and Shriver refuses to let the conversation stay comfortable. She asks the questions that need asking — about identity, belonging, and what we owe each other as citizens. Whether you agree with her or not, she will make you think harder.
Pour a cup. Press play. Think.
Winston Marshall: The West, Free Speech & What We Are Losing
Winston Marshall — former Mumford & Sons banjoist turned fearless cultural commentator — delivers a wide-ranging, sharp conversation on free speech, institutional capture, and why the cultural left has been so effective at reshaping the West. Funny, honest, and worth every minute of your morning coffee.
Lionel Shriver: The Great Replacement — Fact or Fiction?
Shriver refuses to let the immigration conversation stay comfortable. Essential viewing for anyone who wants to think clearly about identity and belonging.
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What Is Capitalism? | Mises Institute
A crisp, foundational explainer from the Mises Institute on property rights, voluntary exchange, and why capitalism — not cronyism — is the engine of human flourishing.
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Thomas Sowell: Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Sowell at his most direct — dismantling the myths of inequality with data, history, and zero tolerance for wishful thinking.
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Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964)
The speech that launched a movement. Watch it once a year. Every year.
youtu.be/qXBswFfh6AYDave Hodges — The Common Sense Show
Timely commentary. No spin. Updated daily.
Dave Hodges — The Common Sense Show
Timely commentary. No spin. Updated daily.
Dave Hodges covers breaking news, election integrity, government overreach, and the stories the mainstream media buries. Good news updates, local and national. Check back daily.
New episodes posted regularly — check the channel for the latest.
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Required Reading
Books that changed how I see the world
F.A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
A landmark warning about how central planning and government control erode individual freedom — as relevant today as when it was written.
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George Orwell
Animal Farm
A timeless allegory about power, propaganda, and what happens when the state promises equality but delivers tyranny.
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George Orwell
1984
Big Brother is watching. A chilling vision of a surveillance state that controls thought, language, and history itself.
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Hamilton, Madison & Jay
The Federalist Papers
The original blueprint for American self-governance. Every citizen should read the arguments that shaped our Constitution.
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Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics
No jargon, no charts — just clear, powerful thinking about how economies actually work and why good intentions often backfire.
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Mark Levin
Liberty and Tyranny
A conservative manifesto that lays out the case for limited government, free markets, and the American founding principles.
Find on AmazonA note from A.J.: These Amazon links are provided purely as a public service for your convenience. I am not an Amazon affiliate and receive absolutely no money, commission, or compensation of any kind from these links. Many of these titles are also available free of charge at your local public library — I encourage you to check there first.
Must Watch
Videos I keep coming back to
Milton Friedman: Your Greed or Their Greed?
In this sharp, classic clip, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman dismantles the notion that government officials are somehow less greedy than the rest of us. A timeless lesson in human nature and free markets.
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Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
One of the sharpest minds in America dismantles the left's talking points on income inequality with facts, logic, and zero patience for nonsense.
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Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964)
The speech that launched a movement. Reagan's 'The Speech' is as powerful today as it was over 60 years ago. Watch it and feel the fire.
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Ayn Rand: First Interview (1959, Full)
A rare, full-length 1959 interview with Ayn Rand — the philosopher behind Objectivism and Atlas Shrugged. Hear her make the case for individual freedom, capitalism, and rational self-interest in her own words.
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Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek
The economics rap battle that went viral for good reason. Keynes vs. Hayek explained through music — surprisingly accurate, genuinely entertaining, and a great entry point for anyone new to the debate.
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Milton Friedman: Responsibility to the Poor
Friedman cuts through the sentimentality of welfare-state thinking and asks the hard question: do government programs actually help the poor, or do they trap them? Vintage Friedman at his most persuasive.
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What Is Capitalism? | Mises Institute
A foundational explainer from the Mises Institute on property rights, voluntary exchange, and why capitalism — not cronyism — is the true engine of human flourishing.
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