Jacques Maritain, Scholasticism and Politics. Translated and edited by Mortimer J. Adler (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2011).

Scholasticism and Politics, first published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Jacques Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. Maritain championed the cause of what he called personalist democracy—a regime committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited government, and individual freedom. He believed a personalist democracy offered the modern world the possibility of a political order most in keeping with the demands of human dignity, Christian values, and the common good.

A two volume collection of sermons written between 1730-1805 by people such as Jonathan Mayhew, John Wesley, Moses Mather, John Witherspoon, Richard Price, Jonathan Edwards, and Noah Webster.

The Best of the OLL No. 61: John Trenchard, “On the Nature of Political Parties” (1721) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This essay on the nature of politicians and political parties comes from Trenchard and Gordon’s influential Cato’s Letters (1721). Trenchard provides an early example of a public choice analysis of political behavior.

The Best of the OLL No. 60: Thomas Gordon, “On the Nature of Power” (1721) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from Thomas Gordon’s collection of newspaper articles known as Cato’s Letters in which and John Trenchard warn about the dangers of a growing British imperial government. Gordon notes the tendency of power to always grow at the expence of liberty.

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley from the original Editions. Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by Richard Hearne Shepherd, in Two Volumes (London: Chatto & Windus, 1906).

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley from the original Editions. Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by Richard Hearne Shepherd, in Two Volumes (London: Chatto & Windus, 1906).

A 2 volume collection of prose writings. Vol. 1 includes 2 youthful prose romances, the Refutation of Deism, his Declaration of Rights, an essay on electoral reform, and other short pieces. Vol. 2 includes A Defence of Poetry, On a Future State, Speculations on Metaphysics, and Letters from Italy.