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Hi everyone, I’m very glad to have joined this group. Allow me, too, to introduce myself.
I have been a High School teacher of History and Italian almost all my working life (here in Italy, where I still live). Now that I have retired, I can finally spend more time doing what I love most: studying and writing.
In the early 70s I studied political science for two years at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Eventually I attended the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where I graduated with a doctor's degree in philosophy in 1975. I also studied English at San Francisco State University in 1980.

My study and research interests lie in the following areas: Philosophy (mostly Political philosophy), Religions, Catholic and Christian theology, History (mostly Medieval history).

I blog at www.windrosehotel.com and my website is at www.srpiccoli.eu.

I’m the author of three books:
- Being Conservative from A to Z
- Blessed Are the Contrarians
- Breviario del giovane politico

I live in the Venice area with my wife and my daughter.

I am looking forward to participating in this group and to contributing to discxussions.

Hello S.R.,

Thanks for posting. I saw your post on the other thread but have been a bit too busy lately for communicating. (We recently relocated to Texas.)

I perused your first-listed title on Amazon and will be taking time to delve into it more deeply. I'm guessing that living in Italy for so long gives you an interestingly different perspective on the American scene.

Like you, I'm interested in philosophy and history, particularly medieval history. (My undergraduate degree is in Philosophy - UCLA.) Unlike you, I know very little about history, so I'm hoping I can learn from you. Can you recommend an introductory text? Something that, while it might cover the major political events and characters, is more focused on what life in general was like for those living in those times. I'm looking in particular for something that will help me for research for some novels I have planned.

Best wishes,
Jeff Perren

Hello Jeff,

Sorry for the delay. I suggest
1) Jacques Le Goff, "Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages" (not an easy reading but very helpful!).
2) "Life In The Middle Ages" by Hans-Werner Goetz (not an easy reading as well but very good).

Best
srp

Very grateful. I'll look into them both.

I hope I can be of some equal assistance to you sometime.

Thanks,
Jeff

I should've included this in the original message:

Do you know of anything that covers roughly the 12th-15th centuries in Switzerland? Oddly, or perhaps not, there doesn't appear on my radar much that covers that particular country during the Middle Ages.

Possibly something that goes in-depth about Austria during that time might also fill the bill, though I'm doubtful it might mention much about the activities in the Old Confederacy cantons from, say, 1280-1400.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer.

Best,
Jeff

Hi Guys,

I write about oligarchs and enrichment in an action/thriller genre in case you'd want to take a look.
I've also opened a group here on GR called "Enrichment & Oligarchs" and I'd be glad to see people joining.
And finally I'm all yours to discuss and contribute to the topics I would find interesting.

I'm very interested in radical politics and ideologies that puncture the left/right fictions.
I have weird books, many of which are ancient and public domain*.

*Click on 'MY BOOKS' for a pdf list I occasionally update and expand
http://ourladyofthegateof.wix.com/kat...

Hi. Laissez Faire Law The Constitution of Government in Galt's Gulch

I'm a libertarian dating back to the days of Ergo at MIT. Mostly I write technical non-fiction, but my recent novel, The Magic Battery, deals with the Lutheran Reformation in a fantasy setting and presents a fight against the legal restriction of magic to male Christians. I've been copying a bunch of my old book reviews on liberty-related books to Goodreads.

Hey everyone,
I wrote a novel that I thought would fit in with this group.
Proximity Factor
Scott
Desc:
Meet Cynthia Austin, a brilliant 32-year-old PhD neurologist whose career has taken her to the forefront of high-security scientific experimentation within the US Pentagon's Air Force Division.

Recently promoted to Scientific Project Manager to report and evaluate DARPA's most classified projects, she finds herself thrust into the intrigue and cutting-edge world of arctic region scientific research.

Assigned to evaluate a mysterious project gone wrong in the remote community of Gakona, Alaska, Cynthia soon discovers an global experiment with dystopian consequences. Fighting against rogue scientists, human experimentation, mind control and hallucinations. Her investigations uncover a plan to bring our government, institutions and environment— to an end as we know it. Only to open it up to other worlds.

Good evening, everyone.

I am Adnan Alabbar, a scientist from Kuwait. I am deeply interested in classical liberalism and libertarianism, especially the works of Mises and Rothbard and their traditions.

Hello everyone, glad to see this group focused on important topics.

Hi everyone
Well I think I have found my tribe! I am a huge fan of Voltaire and in particular, Candide and of the Enlightenment Thinkers. In fact, so much a fan that I have just published a modern-day rewriting of Candide but with a twist of Johnson's Rasselas (both remarkably written in the same year 1759!), Don Quixote (but without the horse!) and Gulliver's Travels.
I really enjoy debates about philosophical matters and how they relate to our understanding of the world.
My book is written in an 18th style but challenges the harsh realities of the world around us and encourages critical thinking. Just like with those 4 authors mentioned above, my book is a picaresque bildungsroman which a whole load of satire. It's called 'The extraordinary misadventures of Lucius Cholmondeley-Knollys' and is available on Amazon.
If anyone has any recommendations of other contemporary novels written in this style then let me know as I'd love to read them.
Looking forward to being part of some discussions!
Bonne journée!
Nick

I am new to Goodreads and a dedicated student of the absolute of reason, the ethics of individualism and the politics of laissez-faire social systems. Cheers, Mark

Hi Everyone my name is Michael and I am an American expat living and working in Copenhagen Denmark.

I am very happy to see this forum in existence on Goodreads as I have been a libertarian and avid follower of the Austrian school of economic thought for quite some time.

Looks like I have found a new home here and look forward to meeting many existing members here to share both ideas and book recommendations!

Further, my favourite books genres include the "classics" to economics, geopolitics, current events, philosophy, world history, archeology and science fiction just to name a few.

My latest interest has been reading libertarian-influenced writers and thinkers such as Alexander Dugin, Curtis Yarvin, James Burnham, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard, Raymond Aron and Michael Millerman, etc.

Again thanks for the invitation and I will post when I come across any interesting information, book recommendations or reviews relevant to this forum. :-)

Mark Shupe wrote: "I am new to Goodreads and a dedicated student of the absolute of reason, the ethics of individualism and the politics of laissez-faire social systems. Cheers, Mark"

Welcome Mark! I am also new to this forum and it's nice to meet other interesting folks like yourself.

Regards,
Michael Winkler
Copenhagen Denmark

🖖 I am an Ayn Rand fan. Native Spanish and English speaker. I do 𝕏 Spaces(or "rooms", more generally, Social Audio, on Clubhouse, Chatter, etc.) Social Audio moderation, Objectivist coach. "Armchair Objectivists" on 𝕏 communities, and juanpablosantis .com .

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🖖 Soy fan de Ayn Rand. Hablante nativo de Español e Inglés. Hago 𝕏 Espacios(o "salas", más generalmente, Social Audio, en Clubhouse, Chatter, etc.); moderación de Social Audio, coach objetivista. "Armchair Objectivists" en 𝕏 Communities, y juanpablosantis. com.

Hi—I'm Jamie Micah. I'm a novelist and high school English teacher in LA. I've been reading in this space for years (Locke, Hayek, Nozick, Orwell) and just published The Empathizer, a dystopian satire exploring what happens when a classical liberal tries to navigate two authoritarian regimes—one progressive, one right-wing—that both claim to liberate while demanding conformity.
The book's central argument: extremism follows identical structural logic regardless of direction, and individual liberty + empathy become acts of resistance against ideology itself.
Self-published via KDP. Happy to discuss political philosophy, dystopian fiction, or why Orwell matters more than ever. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT4YMKV5/