Books

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dante’s Inferno meets Dungeon Crawler Carl in this GameLit LitRPG Reincarnation Isekai fantasy novel where the main character is teleported into the inside of a Tolkienesque fantasy RPG video game that’s secretly Hell and the final boss is the Devil, and if the hero fails to beat the game before time runs out his soul will be trapped there for...

This book is a survey of the most important ideas in the history of Western philosophy. The idea is stated, along with the name of the philosopher who first or most famously articulated it, a brief explanation and analysis of the idea is provided, and then the book moves on to the next idea. By the end of this book, you should have a sense of...

Lord of the Rings meets Castlevania in this epic dark fantasy series-starter that is also perfect for fans of The Stormlight Archive, Night of the Living Dead, and Fourth Wing.

Tyler Bardin, a shy, introverted 20-year-old knight and heir to the throne, and his younger brother Nick Bardin, a charismatic, mischievous 18-year-old battlemage who is...

Star Wars meets Harry Potter in this magical realism novel-in-stories that’s also perfect for fans of The Alchemist, Arabian Nights, and The Hobbit.

A boy finds a pair of magical glasses which lets him see the world in a new way, leading to wondrous, unexpected results.

That’s what this novel is.

But it’s not the novel you expect.

First, Jacob isn’t...

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...