Mises Review

Mises Review, now online, is a quarterly review of the literature in economics, politics, philosophy, and law. Edited by David Gordon.

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D'Souza's massive tome is structured by a simple message.

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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 views, often expressed more trenchantly than is customary among rightists themselves

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To Renew America conveys a vivid sense of its author's unusual personality. But the vital core of the book lies elsewhere.

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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 Old Right. 

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Lino Graglia, a distinguished constitutional lawyer at the University of Texas, has had it up to here with Harry Jaffa.

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Michael Lind's book contains one excellent idea, and several well worth discussion. 

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As any reader in the tradition will know, Austrian economics has deep links to philosophy. 

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The first part of Jeffrey Friedman's piece, an account of the stages in the intellectual evolution of Critical Review, led me to have hope for him and his journal.

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I closed Karen Vaughn's Austrian Economics in America with a sense of disappointment. In several ways, as it seems to me, it fundamentally misconceives its topic.

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Raimondo Cubeddu approaches Austrian economics from an interesting angle. He asks: what implications does it have for political theory?

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The heart of Samuel Francis's brilliant criticism of contemporary American conservatism is found in his essay "The Other Side of Modernism", included in the present collection.

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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 abandoning public argument. 

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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 order, with a strictly limited state.

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John Roemer is a brave man. Few American economists today are prepared to defend full-fledged socialism.

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Newt Gingrich claims that "Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framwork of a dynamic, exciting future" .

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The customary approach to immigration by libertarians has been a simple one.

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According to journalist Jonathan Rauch, malign forces, subsumed under the categories Fundamentalists and Humanitarians, threaten freedom of thought and speech.

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This entry in Edward Elgar's Companion Series purports to be a survey and guide to modern Austrian economics.

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Murray Rothbard tells us that this gigantic work was first envisioned as a "standard Adam Smith-to-the-present moderately sized book, a sort of contra-[Robert] Heilbroner" .

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Peter Abelard confounded the readers of Sic et Non by placing side-by-side opinions of the Church Fathers that seemed contradictory, while offering no reconciliation.