Publications of E. G. Ross

Last modified: October 28, 1996

New! E. G. Ross is now selling two audio tapes:

• How to Talk Freedom. Persuasion tailored to the cause of liberty; nuts-and-bolts, to-the-point, basic "tricks of the trade." ($15 to The Objective American, 1574 Coburg Rd. #242, Eugene OR 97401.)

• The Nature of Strategy. An ex-CIA agent once called a live version of this, "four hours of war college in under an hour"; basics on military strategy vs. military tactics, with many examples; especially good for novices on the subject, its strong relationship to foreign policy seldom taught in schools. ($15 to Understanding Defense, 1574 Coburg Rd. #242, Eugene OR 97401.)

E. G. Ross publishes three newsletters:

1. Understanding Defense (UD), a monthly, independent, for-profit newsletter, provides concise intelligence and analysis on defense and world conflict. UD advocates a wise and strong American defense, including powerful deterrence and strategic "reach," and a capitalist foreign policy. Articles from it are reprinted and quoted in the military and foreign policy fields. One article, by award winning intelligence specialist Harold Hough (who also writes for Jane's Intelligence Review), about the nuclear arsenal of Israel, actually started a fight on the floor of the United Nations!

   Columns include: World Briefing (a monthly summary of world conflicts), Horizons (new technology), Outpost, Looking Ahead, High Ground, a lead essay, and regular, original cartoons. We periodically buy satellite photos in order to illustrate our stories. UD has been published since March, 1986.

2. The Positive Economist Bulletin (PEB), a bi-monthly newsletter, has a mission to uncover optimistic economic news the media bury. Read by many top free market economists and thinkers, PEB is cutting-edge. It counterbalances media doom by digging up positive stories and rational analysis. Contrary to so many economic newsletters, we don't believe the U.S. is falling apart, but getting stronger. That's what the evidence shows. It's the great untold story of the last 15 years.

   Issue after issue, PEB talks about success: privatization, technology, desocialization, innovative ideas for achievement and success, and stories about how people solve (not merely moan about) problems bearing on real-world economics. We publish our own indexes of major economic activity and robustly question government and economic establishment statistics with research and reason. We run useful essays on how you, personally, can remain positive in an often dour world. Our biggest publication, PEB has been in continuous operation since January 1991.

3. The Objective American (TOA) is a bi-monthly newsletter covering the widest range of issues of E. G. Ross's three newsletters: philosophy, science, economics, persuasion, culture, politics, defense, foreign policy, art, and, especially, self-help. Like PEB, it emphasizes solutions and success. Its masthead slogan is "Reality, reason, freedom, self-responsibility."

   Columns include an extensive Q&A section, a lead article, Affirmatives, Real Reading, Real Movies, and Tactics (mainly a self-help column for activists and self-improvers). Original cartoons illustrate. TOA began publishing in January of 1992 and is our fastest-growing and second most popular newsletter, read in all states and on all continents.

We trust in the free market and live it. We reject the common cry that "think" publications can't make money "on their own." They can--if they offer professional quality material for real-life situations. That's why all three publications emphasize not just a philosophically sound base, but practical solutions to problems. We don't think activists should hunker down waiting for the culture to crash. We think they should be bold fighters for life, liberty, and happiness today! But that must include an objective view of the positive and a realization that the positive is part of the objective.

None of our publications has ever missed an issue. We are on-time and make our due dates. We engage in no "we're behind" excuses about being engaged in philosophical problems of galactic implications, or because we are the world's greatest living pontificators and don't have time to be timely. We set ourselves deadlines and then we make sure we meet them, month after month, year after year. We want readers to be able to count on us regularly, not just whenever we happen to feel like rolling out our brain cells.

All our publications are printed newsletters. But until bandwidth improvements drastically speed up graphics on the Internet, we don't intend to make them available in Cyberville.

Free samples of UD, PEB, and TOA are available by sending your postal address to:

name of publication
1574 Coburg Road #242
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: 541-935-8716
Fax: 541-935-8713
E-mail: 74434.3474@compuserve.com

Subscriptions to UD cost $38 for one year, $69 for two years, and $103 for three. PEB and TOA cost $30 for one year, $54 for two, and $81 for three. Lifetime subscriptions to any of the publications are $500 each. Subscribe by sending your postal address and check or money order (drawn in US dollars) to the above address. Make checks out to the name of the publication you are subscribing to.

Back issues are also available:

UD: $3 each; $100 for 1986-95.
PEB: latest three, $5; others, $3; 1991-95, $75.
TOA: $4 each; $65 for 1992-95.