Timothy Sandefur has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators. The most-rated is The Objective Standard: Fall 2019, Vol. 14, No. 3.
Cornerstone of Liberty
Summary
"Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner....Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory....The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result." Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, dissenting in the Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London The Supreme Court's decision in the Kelo case created a firestorm of interest in protecting property rights. Through real-life stories and solid legal analysis, this book shows why property rights are the cornerstone of liberty and how they are protected in the U.S. Constitution. It critically examines how courts and legislatures have diminished property rights and then lays out an agenda for protecting these rights in the future.
©2006 Cato Institute (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.
The Conscience of the Constitution
Summary
Timothy Sandefur's insightful book provides a dramatic new challenge to the status quo of constitutional law and argues a vital truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. Yet the overemphasis on democracy by today's legal community - rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence - has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights. Now, more than ever, the Declaration of Independence should be the framework for interpreting our fundamental law. It is the conscience of the Constitution.
©2014 Cato Institute (P)2014 Cato Institute
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man
Summary
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the nation's foremost intellectuals - a statesman, author, lecturer, and scholar who helped lead the fight against slavery and racial oppression. Unlike other leading abolitionists, however, Douglass embraced the US Constitution, insisting that it was an essentially anti-slavery document and that its guarantees for individual rights belonged to all Americans, of whatever race. Douglass spoke in his most popular lecture, "Self-Made Men", of people who rise through their own effort and devotion rather than circumstances of privilege. "If they have traveled far, they have made the road on which they have travelled. If they have ascended high, they have built their own ladder." In this fast-paced biography, lawyer and author Timothy Sandefur examines the life and ideas of the nation's foremost "self-made man" - from his horrific experiences in slavery and his heroic escape to his eloquent demands for equal treatment by the federal government and his later career as statesman and intellectual. Throughout it all Douglass was guided by his belief in the sanctity of the individual. "There is no Negro problem", Douglass insisted. "The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own Constitution." Led by his dream of an America where all people would be free to make the most of themselves without hindrance, Douglass ultimately transformed the United States. As the nation pauses to remember Douglass on his bicentennial, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man gives us an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of America's greatest thinkers.
©2018 Cato Institute (P)2018 Cato Institute
The Objective Standard: Fall 2019, Vol. 14, No. 3
Summary
The Fall 2019 issue of The Objective Standard features the following articles, shorts, and reviews: "How I Avoided the Struggles of Most Young Gay People" by Stewart Margolis "John Locke: The Father of Liberalism" by Jon Hersey "The Green New Deal: A Plan to Sink America" by Tim White "Washington Crossing the Delaware: A Beacon of the American Spirit" by Joseph Kellard "The Man Who Electrified Music" by Jon Hersey "How John H. Patterson Modernized Industry" by Jonathan Townley "The Enigma Code Breakers Who Saved the World" by Tim White "Joan of Arc: Heroine of France, Exemplar of Courage" by Tim White "Seven Great Poems on the Glory of Man" by various authors "Dr. Ruth: Preaching the Goodness of Sex" by Timothy Sandefur "Deriving More Joy from One of Life’s Richest Sources" by Jon Hersey "McCartan Delighted in the Sensual World" by Timothy Sandefur "John Milton’s Lovers in Paradise" by Timothy Sandefur "Suffused with Sunlight: The Paintings of John White Alexander" by Timothy Sandefur "Jerry Goldsmith’s Voice of Idealism" by Timothy Sandefur "René Marie: A Voice of Independence" by Timothy Sandefur "Scientific Morality and the Streetlight Effect" by Craig Biddle "The Argument from Intimidation: A Confession of Intellectual Impotence" by Craig Biddle "The Battle for Values in American Westerns" by Timothy Sandefur "Alt-Education Is Filling a Void That Colleges Can’t" by Lolita Allgyer "Entrepreneurs in Space" by Timothy Sandefur "Thanks to Science, Allergies Don’t Have to Keep You Down" by Timothy Sandefur "Socrates: Dramatizing the History of Western Thought" reviewed by Robert Begley "Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less" by Michael Hyatt, reviewed by Jonathan Townley "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), reviewed by Arie Vilner The Objective Standard is a quarterly journal of culture and politics written from an Objectivist perspective (Objectivism being Ayn Rand’s philosophy of reason, egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism). The journal is based on the idea that for every human concern - from personal matters to foreign policy, from the sciences to the arts, from education to legislation - there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true or false, good or bad, right or wrong. The purpose of the journal is to analyze and evaluate ideas, trends, events, and policies accordingly. We maintain that the standards of both knowledge and value derive from the facts of reality; that truth is discovered only by means of reason (i.e. through observation and logic); that the factual requirements of man’s life on earth determine his moral values; that the selfish pursuit of one’s own life-serving goals is virtuous; and that individual rights are moral principles defining the fundamental requirements of a civilized society. We stand opposed to the notion that the standards of knowledge and value are not factual but subjective (feeling-based) or other-worldly (faith-based); that truth is ultimately dictated by majority opinion or a "supernatural" being’s will; that democratic consensus or "God’s word" determines what is moral; that sacrifice for "the common good" or in obedience to "God’s commands" is virtuous; and that rights are social conventions or "divine decrees". In stark contrast to these philosophic approaches, ours is a philosophy of reality, reason, egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism.
©2019 Glen Allen Press (P)2019 Glen Allen Press