Jason William Bayless

The classic and influential essay, On Liberty, was written by John Stuart Mill and first published in 1859. An English philosopher, Mill painstakingly expounded upon his ideas of liberty, individuality, and authority mainly through a lens influenced...

This powerful, and sometimes disturbing and frank, political treatise was written in the early 16th century by Niccolo Machiavelli, a political theorist and Italian diplomat. Machiavelli was writing specifically to Lorenzo De'Medici as an instruction...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a masterpiece of American literature. It is a fascinating moral and philosophical study of Puritan New England that details the life and trials of the long-suffering protagonist Hester Prynne who is forced...

This classic 19th Century science fiction novel by H.G. Wells tells the story of a scientist who builds a machine that can travel through time. The Time Traveler details his journey into a radically changed and surprisingly dystopian future for...

Walden, an American classic, details the experiences of Henry David Thoreau while he lived at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau, a transcendentalist author and poet, writes extensively of reflections on his natural surroundings, as well...