Currently interested in political state-of-affairs. Used to love all kinds of fiction: Hemingway, Ludlum, Lamour, Higgins, Cussler, Steinbeck, Asimov. Have read most classical authors: Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Shakespeare, Dante, Hume, Melville, Dickens. Familiar with The Federalist Papers and some letters of Washington, etc.