Mises Review

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David Gordon

Thaler and Sunstein have set themselves a seemingly impossible task. Paternalists maintain that it is sometimes justifiable to interfere with someone's freedom, if doing so will promote his own good.

David Gordon

Judge Denson has, in this excellent book, expertly solved a difficult problem. Wars are a principal means for the state to increase its power.

David Gordon

In this instance, you can judge a book by its cover. The back of the dust jacket displays endorsements by two of our foremost warmongers. Both John McCain and Joseph Lieberman praise Kagan as an insightful analyst of foreign policy.

David Gordon

In Are the Rich Necessary? Hunter Lewis showed himself to be a master of dialectics; and he here applies the same method to monetary theory. 

David Gordon

The neoconservatives are already in hot pursuit of Human Smoke. In the March 2008 issue of Commentary, David Pryce-Jones called it a "mendacious book."

David Gordon

In his historic campaign for president, Ron Paul again and again held up the Constitution as a benchmark to judge the policies of the American government. For this, some libertarians criticized him. 

David Gordon

Robert Murphy's admirable book is much more than a conventional defense of capitalism. Murphy includes standard material, e.g., why price controls, minimum wage legislation, and rent control do not work. 

David Gordon

Wood himself has definite views about the nature of the past that are as much theoretical impositions as those of the writers he challenges.

David Gordon

Jonah Goldberg has ruined what could have been a valuable book. Goldberg has in the past treated libertarians with disdain, but here he offers an analysis of fascism that libertarians will find familiar.

David Gordon

The key to George Weigel's thought lies in his earlier massive volume Tranquillitas Ordinia. St. Augustine beautifully defined peace as the tranquility of order.