THE WAR OVER IRAQ: SADDAM’S TYRANNY AND AMERICA’S MISSION
Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol
Encounter Books, 2003, x + 153 pgs.
THE NOMOS OF THE EARTH IN THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE JUS PUBLICUM EUROPAEUM
Carl Schmitt
Translated by G.L. Ulmen
Telos Press, 2003, 372 pgs.
BEING RECONCILED: ONTOLOGY AND PARDON
Politics: Socialism by Grace
John Milbank
Routledge, 2003, pp. 162–186.
I expected better of John Milbank. He is a theologian of great distinction, the leading theorist of the influential Radical Orthodoxy movement. Would not so profound a thinker offer us illuminating ideas on economics? Alas, it was not to be; and Mises’s skepticism about the pronouncements of theologians on economic affairs once more finds confirmation.
AFTER THE TERROR
Ted Honderich.
Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Vii + 160 pgs.
LAUNCHING LIBERALISM: ON LOCKEAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Michael P. Zuckert
University Press of Kansas, 2002, xi + 375 pgs.
CONTROVERSIAL ESSAYS
Thomas Sowell
Hoover Institution Press, x + 321 pgs.
It is always agreeable to be proved right. In an earlier review, I suggested that Thomas Sowell “had a genius for the striking fact and the apt analogy.” (The Mises Review, Fall 2001, p. 24). In his new collection of essays, Sowell once more demonstrates his uncanny ability to apply basic economic principles in unexpected fashion.
ON NOZICK
Edward Feser.
Thomson-Wadsworth, 2003. 95 pgs.
Almost all academics, unless libertarians themselves, associate libertarianism with one person: the philosopher Robert Nozick. What better way, then, to arouse interest among students of ethics and political thought in this way of thinking, than to provide a forceful defense of Nozick’s brand of libertarianism? Edward Feser uses his considerable abilities of exposition and argument to accomplish exactly this task.
JUST WAR AGAINST TERROR: THE BURDEN OF AMERICAN POWER IN A VIOLENT WORLD
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Basic Books, 2003, xi + 240 pgs.
EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF ECONOMICS
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003, lxxxi + 257 pgs.
JUSTICE, LUCK, AND KNOWLEDGE
S. L. Hurley
Harvard University Press, 2003, viii + 341 pgs.
