“Review of Rothbard,” by Michael Backhouse
A review of a book review is hardly standard procedure, but Backhouse's article is a major scholarly assessment of Rothbard's History.
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The Ninth Amendment and the Politics of Creative Jurisprudence, by Marshall De Rosa
Professor Marshall De Rosa's excellent book calls attention to a paradox in recent constitutional law.
Making Economic Sense, by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard had a remarkable ability to ask fundamental questions that others, even those within his own free-market camp, missed. After Rothbard touched an issue, it could never remain the same.
Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy For a New Century, by Eric A. Nordlinger
Ever since World War II, the traditional American foreign policy of nonintervention in foreign affairs has had a bad press.
Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America , by Michael Lind
As usual, my reviews have been too generous. Although Lind's earlier work, The Next American Nation, struck me as fundamentally med to me possessed of an interesting historical imagination.
What’s Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America, by David Frum
David Frum's new collection of essays and columns is like the curate's egg good in parts.
Judicial Dictatorship, by William J. Quirk and Bridwell Bridwell
Everyone talks about the Supreme Court, but no one ever does anything about it. Many Supreme Court decisions have aroused fierce controversy within the past fifty years:
The Good Society: The Humane Agenda, by John Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith has been writing about economics for over fifty years, with considerable elegance but with little grasp of sound theory.
The Affirmative Action Fraud, by Clint Bolick
Clint Bolick, it appears, does not suffer from the vice of false modesty. Mr. Bolick attracted considerable attention owing to his opposition to Lani Guiniers nomination as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights;
The Crisis of Vision In Modern Economic Thought, by Robert Heilbroner and William Milberg
A familiar Austrian criticism of mainstream neoclassical economics is that it lacks touch with reality.
