The Modern Independent

Reading Room

I do a lot of reading on a weekly basis.  Although I may not frequent every website below every single week, these online newspapers, magazines, and other publications are among my most visited sources of news, analysis and opinion.

Online Newspapers and Periodicals:

The New York Times The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post The Denver Post
The Christian Science Monitor The Coloradoan
Colorado Independent RealClearPolitics.com
The Cook Political Report The Hill
The New Republic The Nation
The Atlantic Monthly The Economist
Newsweek The National Review
Foreign Affairs Dissent Magazine
Politico The Huffingtonpost
The Daily Beast The New Yorker

Other sites I use for my research include:

The U.S. House of Representatives
The U.S. Senate
The Congressional Budget Office
THOMAS (Library of Congress)
Congressional Research Service
The Brookings Institution
The Cato Institute
The Center for American Progress
The Center for a New American Security
The Colorado Center on Law and Policy
The Urban Institute

Notable books that have influenced my thinking:

A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, by John Rawls
The Republic, by Plato
Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
On the Genealogy of Morals, by Friedrich Nietzsche
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
The Federalist Papers, by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
The Social Contract and A Discourse on Inequality, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke
Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics, by Reinhold Niebuhr

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, by Jack Rakove
Radicalism of the American Revolution, by Gordon Wood
The Elusive Republic, by Drew McCoy
Age of Reform and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter
The Road to Disunion, by Willliam W. Freehling
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand
Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis
The Rise of American Democracy, by Sean Wilentz
The Populist Persuasion, by Michael Kazin
The Search for Order, by Robert Wiebe
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin
Origins of the Urban Crisis, by Thomas Sugrue
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, by Lisa McGirr
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Michael Hunt
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, by William Appleman Williams
A Preponderance of Power, by Melvyn Leffler
Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, by Christopher Lasch
Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam