Ecclesiology and the State

Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999)

THE CHURCH IMPOTENT: THE FEMINIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY
Leon J. Podles
Spence Publishing Company, 1999, xviii + 288 pgs.

Usually I review a book by getting into the swing of things at once. What is the book’s central thesis? and (if possible) How is that thesis mistaken? are the questions that occupy me. But, faced with Mr. Podles’s excellent study, I must confront a preliminary issue: why review this book in The Mises Review?

Rothbard’s Intellectual Power

Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999)

MURRAY N. ROTHBARD E L’ANARCO-CAPITALISMO AMERICANO
Roberta A. Modugno
Rubbettino, 1998, 207 pgs.

The Great Treatise at 50

Mises Review 5, No.4 (Winter 1999)

THE SCHOLAR’S EDITION OF HUMAN ACTION
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises Institute, [1949] 1998, xxxvii + 912 pgs.

In Praise of Centralism

Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999)

A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: HUMAN RIGHTS NAMED AND UNNAMED
Charles L. Black, Jr.
Yale University Press, [1997] 1999, xx + 176 pgs.

New But Not Improved

Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999)

IN DEFENSE OF NATURAL LAW
Robert P. George
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1999, 343 pgs.

The Social Chaos Courts Cause

Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999)

THE END OF DEMOCRACY II: A CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY
Edited by Mitchell S. Muncy
Spence Publishing Company, 1999, xlviii + 287 pgs.

There is nothing like a good target to get a writer going, and the contributors to this excellent symposium have found a very worthy target indeed. The Supreme Court has, since the New Deal, engaged in acts of gross usurpation of power. What principally concerns these authors, however, is more specific.

A Manifesto Without Evidence

Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999)

THE GREAT DISRUPTION: HUMAN NATURE AND THE RECONSTITUTION OF SOCIAL ORDER
Francis Fukuyama
The Free Press, 1999, xii + 354 pgs.

Checking Premises

Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999)

“CATHOLICISM, CALVINISM, AND THE COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC DOCTRINE”
David L Prychitko
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Volume 16 (1998): 241-58
 

What Meaning Really Means

Mises Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996)

THE POLITICS OF MEANING: RESTORING HOPE AND POSSIBILITY IN AN AGE OF CYNICISM
Michael Lerner
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1996, xi + 355 pgs.

Michael Lerner fears ridicule, with good reason. His “politics of meaning” is a farrago of nonsense, one absurd assertion tumbling over another. But we dare not laugh too much: this man is dangerous. Hillary Clinton takes him seriously.

How High The Court?

Mises Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996)

JUDICIAL DICTATORSHIP
William J. Quirk and R. Randall Bridwell
Transaction Publishers, 1995. xv + 143 pgs.