POLITICS AND PASSION: TOWARD A MORE EGALITARIAN LIBERALISM
Michael Walzer
Yale University Press, 2004, xiv + 184 pgs.
REMEMBERED PAST: JOHN LUKACS ON HISTORY, HISTORIANS, AND HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE: A READER
Mark G. Malavasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson, eds.
ISI Books, 2005, xxiv + 922 pgs
Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature’s Favorite
Tibor R. Machan
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, xvi + 135 pgs.
Rothbard vs. Everyone
Mises Review 11, No. 2 (Summer 2005)
DIRITTO, NATURA E RAGIONE: SCRITTI INEDITI VERSUS HAYEK, MISES, STRAUSS E POLANYI
(RIGHT, NATURE AND REASON: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS AGAINST HAYEK, MISES, STRAUSS AND POLANYI)
Murray N. Rothbard
Roberta A. Modugno, trans., ed.
Rubbettino, 2005, 172 pgs.
WHAT LINCOLN BELIEVED: THE VALUES AND CONVICTIONS OF AMERICA’S GREATEST PRESIDENT
Michael Lind
Doubleday, 2005, 358 pgs.
Mises Review 11, No. 2 (Summer 2005)
EQUALITY, RIGHTS, AND THE AUTONOMOUS SELF: TOWARD A CONSERVATIVE ECONOMICS
Timothy P. Roth
Edward Elgar, 2004, 168 pgs.
Timothy Roth is neither an Austrian economist nor an advocate of libertarian natural rights. For those of us who accept these positions, though, his book performs a great service. Unfortunately, our views do not command much attention among mainstream economists and political theorists. Roth defends a free economy through an alternative strategy.
THE JUST WAR REVISITED
Oliver O’Donovan
Cambridge University Press, 2003, ix + 139 pgs.
Oliver O’Donovan, one of the leading moral theologians in the Church of England, calls to our attention a vital point. If we take account of his insight, we can grasp immediately why the invasion of Iraq is an unjust war. (The book appeared before the invasion; O’Donovan bears no responsibility for my use of what he says.)
THE LIBERAL ARCHIPELAGO: A THEORY OF DIVERSITY AND FREEDOM
Chandran Kukathas
Oxford University Press, 2003, xii + 292 pgs.
THE ABOLITION OF ANTITRUST
Gary Hull, ed.
Transaction Publishers, 2005, xi + 176 pgs.
The authors of this important book have undertaken a twofold task. They continue the free- market criticism of antitrust legislation by Dominick Armentano and other economists who defend laissez-faire. Armentano himself has an excellent article here; and Thomas Bowden and Eric Daniels contribute outstanding discussions of the legal and historical background of antitrust.
NO VICTORY, NO PEACE
Angelo M. Codevilla
Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, xv + 191 pgs.
If there is such a thing as a good super hawk, Angelo Codevilla is it. He makes many neoconservatives look like pacifists; and he advocates a dangerous course of action, accompanied by quotations from Machiavelli, whom he takes to be an exemplar of political wisdom. As he proceeds to his misguided conclusion, though, he has much of value to teach us.
