EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM: SKEPTICISM AND SOCIALISM FROM ROUSSEAU TO FOUCAULT
Stephen R.C. Hicks
Scholargy Publishing, 2004, v + 230 pgs.
PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY: ESSAYS ON MORALITY IN POLITICS
Michael J. Sandel
Harvard University Press, 2005, 292 pgs.
RESURGENCE OF THE WARFARE STATE: THE CRISIS SINCE 9/11
Robert Higgs
The Independent Institute, 2005, xv + 252 pgs.
Robert Higgs has a well-deserved reputation as an eminent economic historian, but in this collection of essays and interviews, he shows himself an adept moral philosopher as well. He subjects the “humanitarian” case for the Iraq War, unfortunately professed by some self-styled libertarians, to withering scrutiny.
THE CHURCH AND THE MARKET: A CATHOLIC DEFENSE OF THE FREE ECONOMY
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Lexington Books, 2005,x + 239 pgs.
VIENNA AND CHICAGO: FRIENDS OR FOES? A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS OF FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS
Mark Skousen
Capital Press, 2005, 306 pgs.
MODERNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Alan D. Schrift, Ed.
Chapter 3: Liquidating the “Nearly Just Society”: Radical Evil’s Triumphant Return,” by William L. McBride
Indiana University Press, 2005, 28–38 pgs.
THE LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS
Douglas Husak and Peter de Marneffe
Cambridge University Press, 2005, xiv + 204 pgs.
DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM
Larry Arnhart
Imprint-Academic, 2005, iv + 156 pgs.
The title of Larry Arnhart’s valuable book seems a paradox. What has Darwinism, a theory about the origins of biological species, to do with a political viewpoint? Arnhart takes conservatism in a broad sense, so that classical liberalism is included within it; although Friedrich Hayek classed himself as an Old Whig rather than a conservative, our author includes him as one the principal exemplars of the political theory he supports.
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
Charles Murray
The AEI Press, 2006, xv + 214 pgs.
THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL MARXISM: THE EUROPEAN LEFT IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Paul Gottfried
University of Missouri Press, 2005, ix + 154 pgs.
