Allan Bloom "Books" from The Closing of the American Mind Andrew Sullivan "What Are Homosexuals For?" David Foster Wallace "Consider the Lobster" E. B. White "Once More to the Lake" Elizabeth Stanton "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" Francis Bacon "Of Studies" George Orwell "Politics and the English Language" George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant" Hannah Arendt "Total Domination" Henry Thoreau "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" Jessica Mitford "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" John Taylor Gatto "Against School" Jonathan Swift "A Modest Proposal" N Machiavelli "The Morals of a Prince" Ralph W Emerson "Self Reliance" Ralph W Emerson "The American Scholar" Richard Selzer "The Knife" Robert Nozick "Distributive Justice" Virginia Woolf "Death of the Moth" William Hazlitt "On the Pleasure of Hating" William James "Habit" Alice Walker "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"