The Best of Gary North Author:Gary North The Best of Gary North is a 16-cassette audio tape collection of some of the best lectures given by Gary North. These tapes cover a broad spectrum of current issues in a way that only Gary North can: with conclusions and suggestions drawn from his exhaustive understanding of the Bible, economics, social theory, and history - and how to apply the... more »m to today's events. The Compounding Process - Topics include: How to determine your calling. The difference between a calling and a career. Changing careers and callings. The compounding effect. Making a difference 800 years later. Thoughts on Bing Crosby, Marlon Brando, & Dale Evans. The Dogcatcher Strategy - Topics include: Has their been a conservative revolution in America in the last 50 years? The only thing that could “fix” the public schools. How the neo-conservative movement got started by one man. Thoughts on Christian TV, the rise of cable, Rush Limbaugh, I Love Lucy, and Laura Schlessinger. Internet College (1 of 2) - Topics include: The end of the gatekeepers. The most influential man of the last 1000 years. The origins of the Ph.D. Why the Internet college will bankrupt conventional universities. What to do with the million Ph.D.s in the USA. How the best universities inadvertently homogenize students. The future of the Christian university. Internet College (2 of 2) - Topics include: The hidden dangers of a "classical education." Paul on Socrates. Athens vs. Jerusalem. Is the Bible a textbook? The Accreditation Trap. Learning to run a home business as a college curriculum. Finding a spouse in an Internet college. Corporations as sponsors of the Internet college. Worldview Schizophrenia - Topics include: Why we are losing the cultural battle. Do Christians "tithe their children to the state." Tithing, public education, and evolution - how they are all tied together. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and how it is misapplied by creationists. History's beginning, end and purpose. The Founding Fathers' worldview: good or bad? The Unitarian/Mechanistic worldview vs. Darwinian/Organic worldview. High School Curriculum - Topics include: North and Karl Marx agreeing about what history is. Attacking the traditional heroes of history. Why the Christian student must do twice the work. Geological strata and what they mean. Did technology "devolve" since the flood? Thoughts on the Egyptian Pyramids. Why college students are idealists and how to channel that idealism. Why the communists recruited students. Critical Mass vs. Intermarriage - Topics include: Where new church members come from. The future of Jews in the US. Creating a multi-generational movement and what pitfalls to avoid. Billy Graham's quid pro quo to get into New York in 1958. The origins of denominational colleges. The absorption problem. Christian Reconstruction's single greatest contribution. Christianity & the Bobo's - Topics include: The culture war: How conservatives "won the war and lost the peace." The Bohemians vs. the Bourgeoisie. The rise of "no fault" divorce. The single biggest Bohemian victory in culture. The France problem: debauched and wealthy for 300 years: How? How our society can stay rich. Mega-churches - what they say about the US. How the 76 Olympics helped to bring down the USSR. Darwinism - Topics include: The Inherit the Wind lie. Why William Jennings Bryan really opposed Darwin. The Darwinian - Eugenics connection. Darwin as the hero of the Nazis. Compulsory sterilization of the unfit in the US. The undisputed origins of Planned Parenthood. Are we returning to Pantheism? Has Darwin won the minds of Americans? The state of Christianity in Europe and how it came about. Marxism - Is Marxism dead? Where Marxism still flourishes. The effects of the JFK assassination. Why liberals hated LBJ. The state of communism on campuses today. The Feminism / Communism connection. A new battle for "the minds of the college students." The heat death of college liberalism. The death of the classics and what it means. The new Fascism. The Reagan / Thatcher legacy. Rock 'n' Roll - Topics include: Pavlov and Rock & Roll. The rise of the Beatles. The power of Rock & Roll and why it swept the world. The technology that made it possible. The appeal and implications of Rock & Roll. The Movies - Topics include: Why fundamentalism ended its prohibition on movie watching. How Jews came to be involved in the movie industry. Why the movies went liberal. The rise of the R-rated movie. How Hollywood became anti-Christian. How the rating system brought about the decline in the movies. How protestants helped debauch the movies. Why The Last Temptation of Christ was filmed. The Disney threat. The history and future of Christian movies. Springing the Mousetrap - Topics include: The "New" Darwinism: What it is and why it is not new. The terrifying god of the New Darwinism. Marx / Freud / Darwin - the unholy "trinity". The rise of the Christian worldview movement. Why China is not Imperialistic. The future of the American Empire. Why the welfare state has to be rethought before 2018. Why there has been no critique of FDR. Quest for Community - Topics include: The origins and initial appeal of Nazism and Communism. How after 400 years of conservatism, the Jesuits went liberal in 24 months. The decline of community since 1830. How cheap land has lead to the weakening of the family. The origins of the Rotary Club. The shift between geographic churches to confessional churches, then to economic churches. Left Behind and Cast Away - Topics include: Cast Away vs. Robinson Crusoe. The obsession over time. The Northern and Southern concepts of time. Love vs. Time. Why economics textbooks use the Robinson Crusoe example again and again. Left Behind - a movie "so bad, it could only have been made by Christians." The logical conclusions from Left Behind. Head Starts - The 16th tape in the series is Gary North's presentation to a group of students at a Christian school with thoughts about the nature of power, the inner circle, foxholes, selling out, and falling short.« less