The Constitution and the Pride of Reason, by Steven Smith
The Language of Law
Mises Review 5, No. 2 (Summer 1999)
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PRIDE OF REASON
Steven D. Smith
Oxford University Press, 1998, xiii + 203 pgs.
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis, by Ludwig von Mises
Mises On War And Conscription
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
INTERVENTIONISM: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Ludwig von Mises
Bettina Bien Greaves, ed.
Foundation for Economic Education, 1998, xiv + 98 pgs.
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th-Century America, by Richard Rorty
Deconstructing Rorty
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: LEFTIST THOUGHT IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA
Richard Rorty
Harvard University Press, 1998, 159 pgs.
Richard Rorty is a distinguished analytic philosopher, but you would never know it from this vulgar screed. Our author makes clear the basic assumptions of “infantile leftism,” in Lenin’s phrase, in a way that hardly stops short of self-parody.
The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War, by Richard Haass
The Open Conspiracy
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
THE RELUCTANT SHERIFF: THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE COLD WAR
Richard N. Haass
Council on Foreign Relations, 1997, 148 pgs.
The Racial Contract, by Charles Mills
Single-Issue Scholarship
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
THE RACIAL CONTRACT
Charles W. Mills
Cornell University Press, 1997,171 pgs.
Charles W. Mills has, by his own estimation, located a crucial gap in Western political and ethical theory from the Enlightenment to Rawls and Nozick. As Mills rightly says, the social contract dominates modern Western thought. But the contract, as described by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant, leaves out a crucial component of the way society actually operates.
The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis, by Orlando Patterson
Unwitting Racial Heretic
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
THE ORDEAL OF INTEGRATION: PROGRESS AND RESENTMENT IN AMERICA’S “RACIAL” CRISIS
Orlando Patterson
Cities/Counterpoint, 1997,233 pgs.
The Logic of Action, by Murray Rothbard
The Rothbardian Turn of Mind
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
THE LOGIC OF ACTION
Murray N. Rothbard
Edward Elgar, 1997, Vol. I, xviii + 452 pgs.; Vol. II, ix + 416 pgs.
It is both essential and impossible to review these two volumes. Essential, because they include the bulk of the scientific papers written by a great Austrian theorist. But also impossible, because of the incredible variety of topics covered, ranging from the nature of human action to the influence of gnostic thought on Marxism.
Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, by David Gelernter
The Left’s Favorite Killer
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
DRAWING LIFE: SURVIVING THE UNABOMBER
David Gelernter
The Free Press, 1997, viii + 158 pgs.
A History of the American People, by Paul Johnson
Austrian Influence
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Paul Johnson
Harper Collins, 1997, pp. 727–46
Chapters:
“Government Credit-Management and the Wall Street Crash”
“Why the Depression Was So Deep and Long-Lasting”
“The Failure of the Great Engineer”
“What’s Wrong with Libertarianism,” by Jeffrey Friedman
Did Hayek Write His Last Book?
Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998)
“WHAT’S WRONG WITH LIBERTARIANISM”
Jeffrey Friedman
Critical Review 11, No. 3 (Summer 1997): 407–67
