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The Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele's Legendary Lost Lectures assembles fourteen of the penetrating, provocative presentations by this controversial libertarian speaker and writer. The targets of Steele's acerbic and witty criticisms include Scott Adams, Mattias Desmet, Sigmund Freud, Sam Harris, Karl Marx, George Orwell, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, and all things conventionally Wokish. Steele's heroes encompass Immanuel Kant, Robert Michels, Ludwig von Mises, Dexter Morgan, Karl Popper, and all who, howsoever confusedly, come down on the side of liberty, truth, and unsocial justice. "Why Do We See Lysenko-Type Mass Delusions in Western Democracies?" We've learned enough to know that Global Warming Catastrophism and the mass homicide of the Covid "vaccines" are totalitarian insanities. But can Mattias Desmet's theory fully account for these recurring outbreaks of mass psychosis? "Here's Why There Can Never Be a Marxist Revolution" There are two irrefutable reasons why genuine Marxism can never succeed. But failed fake Marxism is a real threat to all of us, especially the working class. "The Five Times George Orwell Changed His Mind" We can best understand George Orwell's thinking by looking at the five occasions when he underwent a major change in his political outlook. "The Most Evil Man in History" Ayn Rand and her slavish worshipers depict Immanuel Kant as the Fountainhead of Evil. But in point of fact, Kant was a far greater friend of liberty and objective truth than the muddleheaded Miss Rand could ever be. "Sam Harris and How to Spot Dangerous Ideas" Sam Harris made his fame and his fortune by claiming that suicide bombings occur because of what the Quran tells Muslims. But the truth is that suicide bombings--by Muslims, atheists, and, yes, Christians--occur because they are the most cost-effective means for militarily weak populations to hit back against oppressive foreign occupation. "Dexter the Busy Bee" The serial killer Dexter Morgan confers a huge social benefit by deleting bad guys, illustrating the point made by Dr. Bernard Mandeville, that viciously-motivated behavior may give us a valuable public outcome. "The Conquistador with His Pants Down" Dr. Sigmund Freud, who likened himself to a conquistador, marketed a deceptive story about what his patients had told him. This false tale has been thoroughly exposed, and the slippery doctor doesn't come out smelling like a rose. "Dr. Peterson! Clean Up Your Theory!" Jordan Peterson is a teller of stories and of stories about stories. But his stories about stories are provably false, and his interpretations of the stories are no more than Rorschach patterns for his own subjective fantasies. "Is It a Fact that Facts Don't Matter?" Scott Adams denigrates truth, yet he continually appeals to facts. And the fact is that truth is a powerful influence in human affairs. "An Inconceivably Humble Defense of the Inconceivably Holy Book" In the year 112,075, humankind has recovered from the latest Ice Age and founded a new religion based on an ancient book. You'll be surprised what our future descendants make of this charming tale recovered from our time. "Some Second Thoughts on Atheism" The author of Atheism Explained comes back to look again at this messy topic and mop up some of the mess. David Ramsay Steele is the author of The Mystery of Fascism: David Ramsay Steele's Greatest Hits (2019), Orwell Your Orwell: A Worldview on the Slab (2017), Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others (with Michael R. Edelstein and Richard K. Kujoth, 2013), Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy (2008), Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (with Michael R. Edelstein, 1997), and From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation (1992). Rave Reviews of Dr. Steele's earlier books: The Mystery of Fascism "From Mussolini to The Matrix, from vegetarianism to mental illness, Steele's relentless logic jolts us awake." --Thomas E. Woods, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History Orwell Your Orwell "an absolutely dazzling book on Orwell, casting a brilliant new light, not just on Orwell himself, but on the entire intellectual history of our time." --Yuri Maltsev, editor of Requiem for Marx Therapy Breakthrough "Prepare to embark upon a rollicking yet highly informative journey through the intense world of psychotherapy!" --Debbie Joffe Ellis, author of How to Hug a Porcupine Atheism Explained "Covers essentially all the arguments for and against God, in science, philosophy, and theology, with sympathy for the believer's views even as they are shown to be untenable," --Victor J. Stenger, author of God and the Atom Three Minute Therapy "Of all the books that explain REBT in simple, clear, and highly usable form, Three Minute Therapy is one of the very best." --Albert Ellis, founder of REBT From Marx to Mises "a well written and tightly argued defense of Mises's position that does much to dispel the 'mystery' of the socialist calculation debate." --Mark Blaug, Economic Journal

"To those who think they know what George Orwell is all about, this book unpacks surprise after surprise. Orwell Your Orwell reveals an Orwell very different from the one most people think of. It gives an unexpected yet convincing picture of Orwell's beliefs, every key point precisely documented. Orwell adopted a habitual rhetoric in which he portrayed himself as a lone, embattled dissident. But objectively examined, his opinions broadly corresponded with those of conventional leftwing thinking. Far from being skeptical of prevailing orthodoxies, Orwell emerges as a True Believer in the orthodoxies of the 1930s Left, though a believer who sharply drew attention to some of the serious problems with these ideologies. In his short life, Orwell underwent several dramatic conversions - such as his overnight switch in August 1939 from being fiercely anti-war to enthusiastically pro-war - while cleaving to some fixed positions - such as his opposition to the British Empire, totalitarianism, and birth control. Dr. Steele identifies both the conversions and the continuities, as well as some aspects of his thought which gradually evolved. As well as recovering Orwell's actual beliefs from the many accumulated misrepresentations, Dr. Steele also criticizes some of these beliefs, exposing the fallacies in Orwell's thinking on such issues as the economics of imperialism, the dangers of hedonism, the significance of the Spanish Civil War, and the efficacy of mind control."--

Three Minute Therapy can help to change your life for the better. You will find yourself looking at life in a different way. Your emotional troubles will seem less mysterious and less powerful. If you take the trouble to learn the techniques explained in Three Minute Therapy, think about them, and apply them to your problems, you will be able to tackle difficulties that may have seemed impossible. Some of your worst fears and anxieties can diminish or dissolve away, and you will become more effective at pursuing your chosen life goals. The techniques used in Three Minute Therapy show you, clearly and simply, how you needlessly upset yourself, and it gives you many thinking, feeling, and action methods of reducing your disturbances while still retaining your main goals, values, and preferences. Three Minute Therapy can add years of healthier and happier living to your life. This book will show you how to change your thinking and change your life!

"A clear, concise, complete, and convincing presentation of the case for atheism. Covers essentially all the arguments for and against God, in science, philosophy, and theology, with sympathy for the believer's views even as they are shown to be untenable."—Victor J. Stenger, author of God: The Failed Hypothesis"Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues that I should be surprised if he were right about everything, but it makes for a most stimulating read. The book is in a different league from Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, and deserves much greater success."—Jeremy Shearmur, author of The Political Thought of Karl Popper"A refreshingly readable introduction to the arguments for and against believing in God, and the implications atheism has—and more importantly does not have—for politics, morality, and even religion itself."—Susan Blackmore, author of Conversations on Consciousness"Steele explains atheism with scholarship, cogency, wit, and clarity. He aims at the nonacademic reader, but no professional philosopher I know of could fail to be impressed."—Jan Narveson, author of This Is Ethical Theory"Atheism Explained is a much better defense of atheism than the recent works by Dawkins and Hitchens."—James Sadowsky, S.J., Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University"Steele defends atheism by a comprehensive analysis of attempts to prove and disprove the existence of God. If you want to refute atheism, then you need to reply to Atheism Explained. It may well become the classic work on the subject. It is as readable as it is rigorous."—J.C. Lester, author of Escape from LeviathanDavid Ramsay Steele is author of From Marx to Mises (1992), co-author (with Michael Edelstein)of Three Minute Therapy (1997), and editor of Genius: In Their Own Words (2002). His articles have appeared in Critical Review, Liberty, National Review, and Ethics. He contributed to The Atkins Diet and Philosophy (2005) and The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (2007).