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Work Not Yet in Progress
Gary North

There are projects out there that need to be completed. Here, I try to persuade energetic, determined, academically qualified people to begin them.

If I were younger, I would think about doing some of them myself. But the clock is ticking, and my plate is full.

When I read, I sometimes think: "There is no really good book on this subject. There should be." When I research projects, I often conclude the same thing.

Here, I share my suggestions with people who may be looking for an M.A. thesis, Ph.D. dissertation, or book project -- or even a Website or blog.

I came up with this idea for a newsletter sometime in the late 1980's. I thought about the signs at the side of torn-up highways: Work in Progress. It took a year and a half after I started this Website before it occurred to me that my Website could serve this purpose. George Orwell was correct: it takes considerable effort to perceive what is under your nose.

When you search for topics, use any of these keywords or a combination:

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The AG prefix stands for "academic gaps."

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History: European -- Political Theory
Gary North
Textbook accounts of the history of Western political theory generally begin with an unstated presupposition: man is saved by politics. This is an application of theology: man is saved by law. This view is wrong. . . . keep reading
History: American -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Three letters -- F, D, and R -- prove that America is a statist bureaucracy and will remain so during my lifetime. You had better make plans accordingly. . . . keep reading
History: American -- University Accreditation
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Universities are the most solidly politically liberal of all institutions in the United States. They have a government-licensed oligopoly. How did they get this? There is no study of this grant of privilege. . . . keep reading
History: American -- Constitutional Law Textbook
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From the earliest colonial constitution -- Connecticut's (1639) -- to the latest Supreme Court decision, there has been change. We need a textbook that surveys this change in terms of fundamental themes of law and liberty. . . . keep reading
History: European -- The Two Wings of the Enlightenment
Gary North
When people speak of the Enlightenment, they rarely understand that there were two wings. These were agreed on some issues and went to war -- literally (1793) -- on other issues. Western thought has been divided ever since 1750 or thereabouts. . . . keep reading
History: European -- Natural Law Theory
Gary North
Natural law theory was developed by Stoic philosophers after the Roman Empire replaced Alexander's empire. It was basic to Western social thought until Darwin's theory undermined faith in nature as normative. We need a history of this development. . . . keep reading