The Hegemonic Imperative

Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998)

THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: AMERICAN PRIMACY AND ITS GEOSTRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Basic Books, 1997, xiv + 223 pgs.
 

Professor Brzezinski displays in this book an inordinate fondness for intellectual games. A minor and forgivable weakness, you might think. But unfortunately the games our author proposes to play put at risk the lives of millions of Americans.

Why monoculturalism?

Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998)

LIBERAL RACISM
Jim Sleeper
Penguin Books, [1997] 1998, 195 pgs.

The Philosopher and the IQ Debate

Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998)

WHY RACE MATTERS: RACE DIFFERENCES AND WHAT THEY MEAN
Michael Levin
Praeger, 1997, xi + 415 pgs.

More Equal Than Others

Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998)

IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DOOMED?
Ronald Dworkin
The New York Review of Books XLV, No. 17, (November 5, 1998): 56–61

Conservatives, at least since the “Impeach Earl Warren” days, have viewed the Supreme Court with less than full enthusiasm. Are we too critical? Surely the Court cannot have butchered the Constitution to the extent its most vehement critics allege.

Rethinking Intervention

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

REWARDING WORK: HOW TO RESTORE SELF-SUPPORT TO FREE ENTERPRISE
Edmund S. Phelps
Harvard University Press, 1997, ix + 198 pgs.

Edmund S. Phelps is no right-wing extremist. Quite the contrary, he stands at the center of Keynesian orthodoxy in economics. Often termed an “economist’s economist,” he is most famous for his work on the natural rate of unemployment and for his structural account of business cycles.

The Return of Lord Robbins

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT: THE LSE LECTURES
Lionel Robbins
Edited by Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels
Princeton University Press, 1998, xxviii + 359 pgs.

Saint Max

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

MAX LERNER: PILGRIM IN THE PROMISED LAND
Sanford Lakoff
University of Chicago Press, 1998, xxi + 323 pgs.

Tricked Into War

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

DESPERATE DECEPTION: BRITISH COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1939-44
Thomas E. Mahl
Brassey’s, 1998, xiv + 256 pgs.

Professor Mahl’s excellent monograph helps clear up a historical mystery. As everyone knows, Americans before Pearl Harbor opposed, in overwhelming numbers, entry into World War II. So much the worse for the American public, say some historians, such as the eminent Thomas Bailey.

The Wilsonian Legacy

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA? WHY DEMOCRACY MATTERS IN FOREIGN POLICY
Eric Alterman
Cornell University Press, 1998, xii + 244 pgs.

The Tyranny of Values

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

AFTER LIBERALISM: MASS DEMOCRACY IN THE MANAGERIAL STATE
Paul Edward Gottfried
Princeton University Press, 1999, xiv + 185 pgs.