"Harrison Bergeron" by Vonnegut (full)

"Self-Reliance" by Emerson (excerpts)

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe (full)

Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Thucydides) (excerpt)

"Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson (full)

The Book of Job (specific chapters)

• Chs 1-3: initial prosperity and sudden trials

• Ch 7: honest huan struggle

• Ch 14: brevity of life and hope beyond suffering

• Ch 19: declaration of faith amid despair

• Ch 28: poem on wisdom

• Chs 38-41: shift in perspective

• Ch 42: ultimate triumph of resilient faith

"Invictus" by Henley (full)

Eulogy for President Reagan by Thatcher (full)

“Duty, Honor, Country” by MacArthur (full)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (full)

The Inferno (excerpts)

• Canto I

• Canto III

• Canto V

• Canto XI

• Canto XXXII

• Canto XXXIII

• Canto XXXIV

“The Prince” by Machiavelli (excerpt ch 17)

Federalist No. 10 by James Madison (excerpt)

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1854 (full)

“If” by Rudyard Kipling (full)

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe (full)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (full)

"Dear Mr. McCarthy, I Am Very Real" by Kurt Vonnegut (excerpt)

"What is Capitalism?" by Ayn Rand (excerpt from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)

"Flattering Unction" by Thomas Sowell (excerpt from The Vision of the Anointed)

"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury (excerpt from The Illustrated Man) 

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (full)

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas (full)

“The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden (full)

“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (full)

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury (full)

“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury (full)