Warfare vs. American Liberty Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) FORGOTTEN LESSONS: SELECTED ESSAYS OF JOHN T. FLYNN Edited by Gregory P. Pavlik Foundation for Economic Education, 1996, vii + 199 pp. John T. Flynn is best known today as a once-liberal columnist for the New Republic who became a bitter enemy of Franklin Roosevelt and a stalwart of
The Sci-Fi Speaker Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) TO RENEW AMERICA Newt Gingrich Harper Collins, 1995, xii + 260 pp. To Renew America conveys a vivid sense of its author’s unusual personality. But the vital core of the book lies elsewhere. In the guise of a reassertion of American values, Speaker Gingrich prescribes a thoroughly statist
The Old South Exemplar Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE SOUTHERN FRONT: HISTORY AND POLITICS IN THE CULTURAL WAR Eugene D. Genovese University of Missouri Press, 1995, x + 320 pp. Eugene Genovese is a Marxist historian, but he is a Marxist of a most unusual kind. In this excellent collection of essays, he continually advocates conservative
Neither Content Nor Character Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE END OF RACISM: PRINCIPLES FOR A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY Dinesh D’Souza The Free Press, 1995, xi + 724 pp. D’Souza’s massive tome is structured by a simple message. Relations between whites and blacks in the contemporary United States are deep in crisis, but a way out exists. The
Why The Austrian School Is Austrian Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) AUSTRIAN PHILOSOPHY: THE LEGACY OF FRANZ BRENTANO Barry Smith Open Court, 1994, xii + 381 pgs. As any reader in the tradition will know, Austrian economics has deep links to philosophy. To understand the philosophical background out of which the Austrian School emerged is
Who We Are; Why It Matters Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE NEXT AMERICAN NATION: THE NEW NATIONALISM AND THE FOURTH AMERICAN REVOLUTION Michael Lind The Free Press, 1995, vii + 436 pp. Michael Lind’s book contains one excellent idea, and several well worth discussion. But these are enmeshed in a bizarre collection of arbitrary assertions.
When All Else Fails ... Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) “JAFFA ON GRAGLIA” Harry Jaffa National Review , Volume 47, No. 15 (August 14, 1995): 27–32 Lino Graglia, a distinguished constitutional lawyer at the University of Texas, has had it up to here with Harry Jaffa. A professed opponent of judicial activism, Jaffa in fact gives judges carte
A New Socialism? Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) A FUTURE FOR SOCIALISM John E. Roemer Harvard University Press, 1994. viii + 178 pg John Roemer is a brave man. Few American economists today are prepared to defend full-fledged socialism; after the Soviet Union’s collapse, even Robert Heilbroner, that quintessential leftist, had words of praise
A Libertarian’s Plea Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) SIMPLE RULES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD Richard A. Epstein Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv + 361 pgs. Richard Epstein’s excellent book is packed full of arguments which continually engage the reader, even if they do not always compel assent. He constructs a powerful case for a free-market social
The Small Matter of Truth Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) THE REVOLT OF THE ELITES AND THE BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY Christopher Lasch W.W. Norton, 1995. x + 276 pgs. Christopher Lasch loved debate; and in The Revolt of the Elites , a collection of his essays published posthumously, he indicts the American upper and professional classes for
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