Michael J. Fairchild

Critical Thinking

How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff
Spurious correlations, by Tyler Vigen
Simpson's paradox, after Edward H. Simpson
List of fallacies of argument, at Wikipedia
Why people believe weird things, by Michael Shermer

Political and Economic Philosophy

Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell
The Intellectuals and Socialism, by F. A. Hayek
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (featuring Newspeak, Duckspeak, and Ingsoc)
The Use of Knowledge in Society, by F. A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom (condensed), by F. A. Hayek
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
Free To Choose, featuring Milton Friedman

Public Policy

A Mathematician's Lament, by Paul Lockhart
D.C. vs. Heller (2008), McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago (2010), Caetano v. Massachusetts (2016), Supreme Court of the United States
The Riddle of the Gun, by Sam Harris
The Quest for Cosmic Justice (extremely condensed), by Thomas Sowell
The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What Went Wrong? Campus Unrest, Viewpoint Diversity, and Freedom of Speech, by Michael Shermer
Hard Truths About Race on Campus, by Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim
IAT (Implicit Association Test): Fad or fabulous?, by Beth Azar
A Word From Abigail Thompson, by Abigail Thompson, Vice President of the American Mathematical Society; and Letters to the Editor in response.

Poetry

Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, by William Shakespeare
Oh Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman

From Socrates to Sartre