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RMC Featured Books

Aikman, David, 2003, Jesus in Beijing, Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington DC
How Christianity is booming in China

Bartholomew, James, 2006, The Welfare State We're In, Politico's Publishing
How the welfare state makes crime, education, families, and health care worse.

Beito, David T., 2000, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, University of North Carolina Press
How ordinary people built a sturdy social safety net in the 19th century

Coulson, Andrew J., 1999, Market Education, Transaction Publishers
How universal literacy was achieved before government education

De Soto, Hernando, 2000, The Mystery of Capital, Basic Books
How ordinary people in the United States wrote the law during the 19th century

Finke, Roger, and Stark, Rodney, 1992, The Churching of America, 1776-1990, Rutgers University Press
How the United States grew into a religious nation

Fogel, Robert William, 2000, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, University of Chicago Press
How progressives must act fast if they want to save the welfare state

Green, David G, ed., 1999, Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State, Institute of Economic Affairs, London
How ordinary people built themselves a sturdy safety net before the welfare state

Hayek, F. A., 1973, Law Legislation and Liberty, Vol 1, University of Chicago Press
How to build a society based upon law

Kaestle, Carl F., 1983, Pillars of the Republic, Hill and Wang, New York
How we got our education system

Maine, Henry, 1972, Ancient Law, Everyman’s Library, London
How the movement of progressive peoples is from status to contract

Martin, David, 2002, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish, Blackwell Publishers
How Pentecostalism is spreading across the world

Skocpol, Theda, 2003, Diminished Democracy, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
How the US used to thrive under membership associations and could do again

Stevenson, David, 1990, The Origins of Freemasonry, Cambridge University Press
How modern freemasonry got started in Scotland

Tooley, James, 2003, The Miseducation of Women, Ivan R. Dee
How the feminists wrecked education for boys and for girls

Tooley, James, 2000, Reclaiming Education, Cassell
How only a market in education will provide opportunity for the poor

West, E.G., 1994, Education and the State, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis
How education was doing fine before the government muscled in

Zane, John Maxcy, 1998, The Story of Law, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis
How law developed from early times down to the present


Other RMC Books

Ahlstrom, S.E., 1972, A religious history of the American people, Yale UP

Anbinder, Tyler, 2001, Five Points, The Free Press, New York

Ankerberg, John, and Weldon, John, 1998, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, Eugene, Oregon

Armstrong, Karen, 2000, The Battle for God., Knopf

Armstrong, Karen, 1994, A History of God, Ballantine Books

Barzun, Jacques, 2000, From Dawn to Decadence, Harper/Collins, New York

Beck, Don Edward, and Cowan, Christopher C, 1996, Spiral Dynamics, Blackwell

Best, Geoffrey, 1979, Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75, Fontana Press, London

Bethell, Tom, 1998, The Noblest Triumph, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

Brace, C.L., 1880, The Dangerous classes of New York, Adamant

Brands, H.W., 2000, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Doubleday, New York

Bretall, Robert, 1973, A Kierkegaard Anthology, Princeton University Press

Broughton, John M. et al, 1982, The Cognitive-developmental Psychology of James Mark Baldwin, Ablex (SA  BF311.C5513)

Burke, James, 1985, The Day The Universe Changed, Little Brown, Boston

Bushman, C.L., and R.L., 1999, Mormons in America, Oxford University Press, New York

Campbell, Joseph, 1968, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press

Carnes, Tony, 2001/4/13, “The Pentecostal City”, The Wall Street Journal

Carter, Stephen L., 2001, God’s Name in Vain, Basic Books

Cleary, Edward L. et al., 1997, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America, Westview

Combe, Victoria, 2001/12/26, “Curate's course feeds a spiritual hunger”, The Daily Telegraph

Cornford, Francis, 1945, The Republic of Plato, Oxford University Press

Cross, Whitney, 1950, The Burned-over District, Cornell UP

Crunden, R.M., 1982, Ministers of Reform: the Progressives’ Achievement in American civilization, 1889 - 1920, Basic

Dalrymple, Theodore, 2001, Life at the Bottom,, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago

Dobb, C. B., 1991, Sociology: An Introduction,, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Fort Worth

Eksteins, Modris, 1989, Rites of Spring, Anchor Books

Eliot, Charles W., 1909, The Religion of the Future, Kessinger

Febvre, Lucien, 1975, The Coming of the Book,

Fletcher, Richard, 1999, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity, University of California Press

Foster, C.I., 1960, An errand of mercy, The evangelical united front, 1790-1837,, North Carolina UP

Friedan, Betty, 1963, The Feminine Mystique,

Garrard-Burnett, Virginia, and Stoll, David, 1993, Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America,

Gebser, Jean, 1984, The Everpresent Origin, Ohio University Press

Gould, Philip, 1999, The Unfinished Revolution, Abacus

Graña, César, 1964, Bohemian versus Bourgeois, Basic Books (O/S PQ292.G7)

Harris, Lee, 2004, Civilization and Its Enemies, Free Press

Hofstadter, Richard, 1955, The Age of Reform, Vintage Books, New York

Hofstadter, Richard, 1963, Anti-intellectualism in American Life,

Hunt, Morton, 1993, The Story of Psychology, Doubleday, New York

Hunter, James Davison, 1991, Culture Wars, Basic Books, New York

Johnson, Paul, 1979, A History of Christianity, Simon & Schuster

Josephson, Matthew, 1962, The Robber Barons, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Kaufmann, Walter, 1992, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Modern Library, New York

Lane, Frederick C., 1992, Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University Press

Lane, Frederick C., 1973, Venice A Maritime Republic, Johns Hopkins University Press

Loevinger, Jane, 1976, Ego Development, , Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (SA BF175.L63)

Martin, David, 1990, Tongues of Fire, Blackwell Publishers

Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich, 1992, The Communist Manifesto,, Bantam Books, New York

McLoughlin, William G., 1978, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, University of Chicago Press

Meltzer, Milton, 1971, Slavery, from the rise of western civilization to the Renaissance,, Cowles, New York (O HT863.M37)

Meltzer, Milton,, 19xx,, Slavery, A World History,

Morris, William, 19xx, Art and Socialism,

Nigosian, S.A., 1993, The Zoroastrian Faith, , McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal

Odom, William E., 1998, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press

Peterson, Jesse Lee, 2000, From Rage to Responsibility, Continuum International Publishing Group

Piven, Frances Fox, Cloward, Richard A, 1972, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Vintage Books, New York

Riis, Jacob A., 1997, How the Other Half Lives,, Penguin Classics, New York

Ryken, Leland, 1990, Worldly Saints, Zondervan

Shaw, Bernard, ed., 1889, Fabian Essays in Socialism, Dolphin Books

Smith, Brian H., 1998, Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic,

Smith, Huston, 1991, The World’s Religions, HarperSanFrancisco, New York

Sowell, Thomas, 1998, Conquests and Cultures, Basic Books, New York

Stark, Rodney, 2004, Exploring the Religious Life, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

Stark, Rodney, and Bainbridge, William Sims, 1985, The Future of Religion, University of California Press

Stark, Rodney, and Bainbridge, William Sims, 1996, A Theory of Religion,

Stark, Rodney, and Finke, Roger, 2000, Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion, University of California Press, Berkeley

Stern, William J, 1997, “How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish”, City Journal, Manhattan Institute

Stevenson, George M, 1952, The Puritan Heritage, Macmillan, New York

Stoll, David, 1990, Is Latin America Turning Protestant?, UC Press, Berkeley

Sweet, W., 1952, Religion in the development of American culture 1764-1840, Scribner

Thirsk, J, ed., 1967, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Cambridge University Press, (SA HD593.A62)

Thoreau, Henry David, 1997, Walden, World’s Classics

Webster, Donovan, 2002/01, “China’s Unknown Gobi”, National Geographic

Wilson, A.N., 1999, God’s Funeral, W.W. Norton

Wilson, August, 2003, Jitney, Overlook Press

Wood, Gordon S., 1992, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Knopf

Woodson, Robert L., 1998, The Triumphs of Joseph, The Free Press

 

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Action

The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness... But to make a man act [he must have] the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action


Chappies

“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”  —Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison


China and Christianity

At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing


Churches

[In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm


Class War

In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”


Conservatism

Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity


Conservatism's Holy Grail

What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph


Conversion

“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh


Democratic Capitalism

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism


Drang nach Osten

There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion


Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State


Faith & Purpose

“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990