SOFT DESPOTISM, DEMOCRACY’S DRIFT: MONTESQUIEU, ROUSSEAU, TOCQUEVILLE, AND THE MODERN PROSPECT
Paul A. Rahe
Yale University Press, 2009, xxiii + 374 pgs.
Paul Rahe’s outstanding book can be considered an extended commentary on a famous passage in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America:
KILLING IN WAR
Jeff McMahan
Oxford University Press, 2009, xii + 250 pgs.
MELTDOWN: A FREE-MARKET LOOK AT WHY THE STOCK MARKET COLLAPSED, THE ECONOMY TANKED, AND GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS WILL MAKE THINGS WORSE
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Regnery 2009, xi + 194 pgs.
THE ECONOMIC NATURALIST’S FIELD GUIDE: COMMONSENSE PRINCIPLES FOR TROUBLED TIMES
Robert H. Frank
Basic Books, 2009, 234 pgs.
CREATE YOUR OWN ECONOMY: THE PATH TO PROSPERITY IN A DISORDERED WORLD
Tyler Cowen
Dutton, 2009, viii + 259 pgs.
Tyler Cowen has written an unusual book. From the title, one expects a book that addresses the current economic crisis and prescribes a remedy for it. Instead, Cowen concentrates on the traits and virtues of autistic people. If Cowen wants to write on this topic, why does he lead the reader to think he will discuss something else?
GRAY’S ANATOMY: SELECTED WRITINGS
John Gray
Allen Lane, 2009, vii + 481 pgs.
“Readers have much to learn from John Gray, but they must be able to ignore a great deal of nonsense to benefit from his work.”
This anthology of John Gray’s work over the past thirty years enables us to answer a question that has puzzled many people. What went wrong with John Gray?
YOU AND THE STATE: A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Jan Narveson
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, xi + 215 pgs.
THE KEYNES SOLUTION: THE PATH TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
Paul Davidson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, Ix + 196 pgs.
SECULAR PHILOSOPHY AND THE RELIGIOUS TEMPERAMENT: ESSAYS 2002–2008
Thomas Nagel
Oxford, 2010, 171 pgs.
VICTOR’S JUSTICE: FROM NUREMBERG TO BAGHDAD
Danilo Zolo
Verso, 2009, xiii + 189 pgs.
One way to look at war likens it to domestic crime. If it is wrong for someone to initiate force against a person who has not violated rights, why should matters change when a group of people, acting under the command of a nation’s leader, invade the territory of another country?
