Justus Doenecke's careful study of the opponents of American entry into World War II makes evident that the noninterventionists had a clearer grasp of essential truths about American foreign policy than their eager-for-war opponents.
Mark Skousen is not easy to satisfy. "In 1980," he informs us, " I asked Murray Rothbard to write an alternative to Robert Heilbroner' s The Wordly Philosophers."
While America Sleeps might better have been called While the Kagans Sleep. The book is divided into two parts: one on British foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s and another on American foreign policy in the 1990s.
Most readers of this journal will, I suspect, find the arguments of David Schmidtz much more congenial than those of his coauthor in this discussion of welfare.
Sometimes a single sentence in a book tells you that something is radically wrong. In the present work we find the damning statement early: "Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett are supremely great dramatists;
In a masterly essay included in The Driving Force of the Market, Israel Kirzner asks whether Hayek can best be seen as a hedgehog, who sees one big thing, or as a fox, who sees many things.
Years ago, Paul Samuelson raised an influential objection to Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Hayek argued that collectivist movements displayed a disturbing feature.
Peter Lewin here undertakes a difficult task and carries off his mission with notable success. He studied with the late Ludwig Lachmann, by whose thought he has been greatly influenced.
The Swiss scholar Eduard Fueter once observed that every historian must decide whether he wishes to write from the perspective of his own time, or from the perspective of those whom he is studying.
Cohen has a great philosophical virtue. He constantly raises major difficulties for the bad ethical and political doctrines that he professes.
