Books

A man stays up late after work playing RPG video games and getting high and eating pizza when he is suddenly transported to a magical fantasy realm. He learns that he is now inside a fantasy RPG video game, his character is a Level 1 Human Knight, and he has a main quest: defeat the Four Accusations, also known as the four Emperors of the...

For Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X, no figure in American history has been more polarizing than Donald Trump, and no politician has had more influence on the Right. However, if you look back to the Boomer generation, the Silent generation and the Greatest generation, there has been one other person who was equally radical, influential, and...

An insightful mixture of political philosophy and policy advocacy, this book justifies libertarian politics using the Golden Rule of ethics to achieve a provocative new political theory called GOLD. GOLD defends the libertarian position on antiwar, drugs, prostitution, civil liberties, abortion rights, and gay marriage, GOLD explains why free...

Everyone has heard dark whispers about the philosophy of Objectivism. People read Ayn Rand’s novels and fall in love with her ideas, only to collapse into one of two inevitable fates: (1) eventually give up on the ideas as childish and selfish, often complaining that the philosophy is a cult, or (2) develop a religious, zealous fanaticism,...

Author’s Note: This novel is “LitRPG Lite,” which means that it does not give explicit stats, levels, etc., but it is very much RPG-inspired fantasy literature, in which characters acquire items and weapons and spells, gain experience and increase in power by fighting and defeating enemies, and obtain quests that require them to venture into...

These ten fantasy fiction short stories are rich in intriguing characters and suspenseful conflicts, and provide a fast, fun pace that will give you a sense of enjoyment while making you think about deep, meaningful issues in the human experience. Explore the conflict between resentment and freedom in “The Unsealed Heart” and “The Mine”,...

Russell Hasan continues the proud tradition of libertarian science fiction with this contribution to the genre, a short fiction anthology featuring seven science fiction stories. Here you will find “Project Utopia,” a flash fiction story about control and freedom, “Stealth Stars,” a longer story in which an astronaut explorer lands on a strange...

This paper provides a new system of logic, including philosophical principles and logical notation, based on the work in logic done by Aristotle and later by Ayn Rand but also with a nod to modern Analytical philosophy, which is extremely useful to lawyers for analyzing facts to determine whether they satisfy the elements of a claim, as well as...

This is an essay on forgiveness, not in the religious sense, but in a purely secular meaning, as in, when one person forgives another person for something they did wrong. The primary focus is on self-forgiveness, where a person forgives themselves, a concept which this essay explains as “moral bankruptcy,” using debts and credits and bankruptcy...

This book is an essay about Objectivism, the philosophy created by philosopher Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged. Many people have heard about Objectivism (although many others have not), and they are curious to learn more about it. The book argues that Objectivism, as a philosophy, can be reduced to an ethics, and that this ethics can be...

The Magic Key Cards, a fun, strange science fiction novella about a hapless hero named Jack who by some random coincidence learns about an evil secret society that rules the world and obtains a magical item capable of defeating them, an item conveniently disguised as something no sane person would ever look for: a Libertarian Party membership...

This short paper on logic argues that logic and science can go hand in hand, and that, by taking observations of perceptions and sensations, and applying logical analysis to them, you have the power to build conceptual models and frameworks that you can use in order to predict what you should do in the future and to reason how to solve the...

A young thief named Zandrew accidentally finds a magical item called The Golden Wand, throwing him into a quest to save the world from the Dark God Vladius and leading him into an alliance with a group of heroes who serve the God of Light Arlius, but his quest turns out to be more than what it seems, when the evil kings and queens who rule this...

Zandrew and his friends have escaped from The Empire and reached The Mountain Kingdom, a safe haven for the worshippers of the God of Light Arlius, but they must leave behind this safety, and journey out into darkness and danger, on their quest to find Ankezebaur the Last Avatar of Light, from whom they hope to learn the Great Secret that will...

The quest of the Golden Wand seems doomed when Zandrew and his allies learn that Ankezebaur the Last Avatar of Light is dead, but a slim glimmer of hope still remains, and Zandrew, Sheila, Tyrona, Rellora, Gennis, Corbyn and Rodrick cling to that slender hope and venture onto one final quest, to try to piece together fragments of the Great...

This short paper contests and disputes the foundations of Objectivist epistemology, challenging Ayn Rand’s position that axioms are the basis of all Objectivist logic, and instead asserts that perception and perceived things, not axioms, are the starting point for the set of inferences which build up and culminate in the blooming flower of human...

This treatise on epistemology is a defense of knowledge of the physical world, which refutes a collection of the history of philosophy’s most popular arguments, such as the argument that sensory perception is capable of deception, the argument that sensory experience is subjective and therefore incapable of knowing objective reality, the...

Want to learn about Libertarian Economics? Why the rise and eventual triumph of The Liberty Movement is an inevitable historical necessity? Why every other economic system is corrupt, and only this system is good? Interested in understanding what Libertarian Economics really means? Then please read this book!
At one and the same time, this short...

What is logic? What are the scope and limits of logic? Is it possible to use logic to create a system of ethics and morality? Is it possible for logic to fully define a theory of economics? If so, how and under what conditions? What does moral logic look like? What are the principles of economic logic? Is logic alone a necessary and sufficient...

This short philosophical dialogue is written in the style of Plato but with substance that is closer to Aristotle. It is written in a way that is simple, engaging, and easy to understand, while at the same time tackling and grappling head on with some of the most complicated, difficult questions and issues ever posed in the history of...

This book is a (very) short essay about self-reliance, intellectual honesty, and self-esteem, and what it means to be an Objectivist. The essay lays out what it means if you choose the path of self-reliance, what commitments you are undertaking if you do so, what you gain, what you lose, how and why self-reliance can help you live a better life,...

Previously published as XYAB Economics: A GOLD Libertarian Analysis of Money, Trade, and Freedom

This scholarly nonfiction work presents a theory of capital, trade, money, prices, supply and demand, value, and freedom. Everything that you ever wanted or needed to know about economics and how an economy works is explained in this book. The main...

Here’s a funny story: I wrote this book by accident. After completing my book, “A Brief History of the Ideas of Western Philosophy,” at age 40, I decided that I had written enough, and that I was finished writing, and I would spend my free time doing other things. Three months later, I had a crisis of faith, in which I decided that maybe it was...

The premise of this collection of essays is one idea which is simple and obvious and accurate, yet which, due to the dishonesty and cowardice that pervades today’s political climate, no one before me (to my knowledge) has had the courage and the confidence to say.
The idea can be summarized thusly:
The term “the Right” means the Christian statist...

A short collection of poetry for your reading pleasure. Topics include gratitude, faith, forgiveness, fear, success, time, reality, and life.
The best way to demonstrate the quality of these poems is by providing you with one example. So here it is:

Nirvana
by Russell Hasan

Ignore Hell.
Pay attention to Heaven.
See everything.
Remember nothing.
Think...

“What should it profit a man, if he gaineth the world, but loseth his own soul?” Mark 8:36.

Sometimes one gains the world, not by losing one’s soul, but by keeping it.

This essay on the philosophy of religion makes the argument that, starting with Descartes, the Modern and Postmodern eras have been defined by the idea that it is always rational to...

Everyone is happy in the Kingdom of Imperia. Humans farm, dwarves mine, elves craft golden items. People sing and dance in the streets. Everyone is happy!
But beneath the surface, trouble is brewing. An evil wizard named the Dark Wizard seeks to steal a magical item named the Crystal of Light, with which he will have the power to summon dragons...

Previously published as An Essay on the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments.

At the end of my LitRPG fantasy novel “Knight in a Strange Realm,” (spoiler alert!) the Wise Sage gives the Nameless Knight a magical item called the Wisdom of God. When he does, the Sage also explains the meaning of the Wisdom of God to the hero. This short essay...

Science is under attack.
Religion, philosophy and relativism seek to undermine our confidence in science, relegating it to the realm of mere opinion and not of actual knowledge. This treatise on epistemology traces the attack against science back to one root premise: the theory of axioms, that we should begin with self-evident principles and then...

Think “A Christmas Carol” meets “It’s a Wonderful Life” but with Thanksgiving instead of Christmas…

Peter, Ronald, Harold and Mary Klein are the four children of a wealthy Connecticut family. One Thanksgiving, they are visited by a magical spirit, the Gratitude Turkey, who possesses a plastic inflatable lawn-decoration...

When Judas falls in love with Jesus, it’s a disaster waiting to happen…

Judas is a young Jewish man in Roman-occupied Ancient Israel who harbors a dark secret: he has a huge crush on a local wizard who is rapidly gaining fame and notoriety… a wizard named Jesus Christ. When Judas finally gets the chance to meet Jesus, he is blown away by Jesus’s...

According to supply-and-demand economics, certain basic principles hold true: when supply goes up, prices go down, and when supply goes down, prices go up; when demand goes up, prices go up, and when demand goes down, prices fall. It is also generally understood that increasing the money supply causes inflation and shrinking the money supply...