Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, by C. Bradley Thompson and Yaron Brook

Mises Review 16, No. 1 (Spring 2010)

NEOCONSERVATISM: AN OBITUARY FOR AN IDEA
C. Bradley Thompson and Yaron Brook
Paradigm Publishers, 2010, 256 pgs.
 

To most of us, neoconservatism is inevitably associated with the Iraq War. A group of neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan and David Frum, played with consummate folly a major role in urging the Bush administration toward initiating that conflict. The movement, on that ground alone, has little to recommend it; but can one nevertheless make a case on its behalf?

Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century, by Donald Livingston

Mises Review 18, No. 1 (Spring 2012)

RETHINKING THE AMERICAN UNION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Donald Livingston
Pelican Publishing Company, 2012, 272 pgs.

 

The contributors to Donald Livingston’s valuable collection of essays defend two main contentions. Each of these contentions may be held independently of the other, but the first one provides a reason to welcome the truth of the second.

Livingston, with characteristic care, states the first of these contentions in this way:

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