In Defense of Women

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

FEMINISM IS NOT THE STORY OF MY LIFE:  HOW TODAY’S FEMINIST ELITE HAS LOST TOUCH WITH THE REAL CONCERNS OF WOMEN
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Doubleday, 1996, x + 275 pgs.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese has had an idea brilliant in its simplicity and common sense. Feminism arouses furious passions, as supporters and opponents incessantly battle one another. Each party remains committed to its own doctrine, and the endless polemics resolve nothing.

The Ultimate Bailout

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

“SOCIAL SECURITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS”
The New York Review of Books (December 16, 1996): 68–72
 

Economists Try the Vision Thing

Mises Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996)

THE CRISIS OF VISION IN MODERN ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Robert Heilbroner and William Milberg
Cambridge University Press, 1995, ix + 133 pgs.

The Jefferson Revisionism Hoax

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (1997)

THE LONG AFFAIR: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1785-1800
Conor Cruise O’ Brien
University of Chicago Press, 1996, xvii + 367 pgs.

Charmed Into Bloodshed

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Summer 1997)

SELLING WAR: THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICAN “NEUTRALITY” IN WORLD WAR II
Nicholas John Cull
Oxford University Press, 1995, xv + 276 pgs.

The Hayekian Cul-de-sac

Mises Review 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997)

HAYEK AND AFTER: HAYEKIAN LIBERALISM AS A RESEARCH PROGRAMME
Jeremy Shearmur
Routledge, 1996, x + 257 pgs.

Nationalize Education and Other Libertarian Ideas

Mises Review 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997)

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LIBERTARIAN: A PERSONAL INTERPRETATION
Charles Murray
Broadway Books, 1997, xiii + 178 pgs.

Inside Scalia’s Mind

Mises Review 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997)

A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION: FEDERAL COURTS AND THE LAW
Antonin Scalia
Princeton University Press, 1997, xiii + 159 pgs.

Puzzles for Economists

Mises Review 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997)

ESSAYS ON CAPITAL AND INTEREST: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE
Israel M. Kirzner
Edward Elgar, 1996, viii + 166 pgs.

Israel Kirzner has achieved greatest renown as an Austrian economist for his work on entrepreneurship. But he is also a distinguished capital theorist; the present volume usefully collects several of Kirzner’s essays in this field, most notably his 1966 “An Essay on Capital.”

Liberalism Made Right

Mises Review 2, No. 4 (Winter 1996)

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM: THE UNVANQUISHED IDEAL
David Conway
St. Martin’s Press, 1995, ix + 150 pgs.