Is Socialism Really ‘Impossible’?, by Bryan Caplan
Must Economies Be Rational?
Mises Review 10, No. 3 (Fall 2004)
“IS SOCIALISM REALLY ‘IMPOSSIBLE’?”
Bryan Caplan
Critical Review 16, No. 10 (2004): 33–52
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
The Austrian Guide to American History
Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)
THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Regnery Publishing, 2004, xv + 270 pgs.
Recovering The Past: A Historian’s Memoir, by Forrest McDonald
The New History: A Cover For War
Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)
RECOVERING THE PAST: A HISTORIAN’S MEMOIR
Forrest McDonald
University Press of Kansas, 2004, vii + 198 pgs.
In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism, by David Conway
Liberty and (Rightly Understood) Nationalism
Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)
IN DEFENCE OF THE REALM: THE PLACE OF NATIONS IN CLASSICAL LIBERALISM
David Conway
Ashgate, 2004, viii + 210 pgs.
In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order, by Deepak Lal
Trade and the Iron Hand
Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)
IN PRAISE OF EMPIRES: GLOBALIZATION AND ORDER
Deepak Lal
Palgrave, 2004, xxvi + 270 pgs.
Deepak Lal writes as a convinced advocate of American Empire. But in the course of the book, he undermines his own reasons for defending imperialism and offers a devastating criticism of democratic imperialism and of Woodrow Wilson’s Utopianism.
Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society, by Robert Higgs
The State Eviscerated
Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)
AGAINST LEVIATHAN: GOVERNMENT POWER AND A FREE SOCIETY
Robert Higgs
Independent Institute, 2004, xx + 408 pgs.
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, by Francis Fukuyama
Revenge of the Power Mongers
Mises Review 11, No. 1 (Spring 2005)
STATE-BUILDING: GOVERNANCE AND WORLD ORDER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Francis Fukuyama
Cornell University Press, 2004, xiii + 137 pgs.
“The Problem of Global Justice,” by Thomas Nagel
Indifference to the World
Mises Review 11, No. 1 (Spring 2005)
“THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL JUSTICE”
Thomas Nagel
Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, No. 2 (April 2005):113–47
Thomas Nagel’s valiant attempt to defend John Rawls’s restricted scope for global justice has a valuable, and I am sure unintentional, consequence. It makes clear that the entire basis of Rawls’s political philosophy rests on an unfounded premise.
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, by Richard A. Posner
Posner (Again) Blesses Statism
Mises Review 11, No. 1 (Spring 2005)
LAW, PRAGMATISM, AND DEMOCRACY
Richard A. Posner
Harvard University Press, 2003, vii + 398 pgs.
The Virtue of War: Reclaiming the Classical Christian Traditions East and West, by Alexander F.C. Webster and Darrell Cole, and Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State, by Laurence M. Vance
Thou Shalt Kill, or Not?
Mises Review 11, No. 1 (Spring 2005)
THE VIRTUE OF WAR: RECLAIMING THE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS EAST AND WEST
Alexander F.C. Webster
Darrell Cole
Regina Orthodox Press, 2004, Iii + 252 pgs.
CHRISTIANITY AND WAR AND OTHER ESSAYS AGAINST THE WARFARE STATE
Laurence M. Vance
Vance Publications, 2005, x + 118 pgs.
