In this article, Leigh Kathryn Jenco reviews William T. de Bary’s Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good, and William C. Kirby’s Realms of Freedom in Modern China.
The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to “failure” on the model of neoclassical “market failure” theory. It assumes a state of nature, an anarchist utopia, as James M. Buchanan has termed it. In the language of game theory, three sorts of social dilemma must be solved to achieve a stable society: the coordination game, the prisoners’ dilemma, and the chicken game.
One might ask: why has there been so little consideration of nonviolent resistance among libertarians? Is it because they are so enamored of the concept of self-defense that they automatically assume that violence in the sphere of self-protection should be automatically extended to national defense? The argument in this paper is not that nonviolent struggle should be the only form of social defense acceptable to libertarians, but rather that it offers a consistently moral and practical way for an anarchical society to protect itself.
This study introduces the ideas of Robert Lewis Dabney on universal education. The goal of presenting Dabney’s views is to add to the discussion of natural order versus democracy.
When I first received Milton Friedman’s letter in response to my article “Hayek’s Road to Serfdom” I did not realize it would lead to more. Over the past few years I have shared these letters with several colleagues, friends, and students. However, such are his fame and accomplishments that I thought these back and forth letters might be of interest to a wider audience of JLS readers.
In this article, J.C. Lester reviews Ddavid Conway’s In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism.
In this article, Marcus Verhaegh reviews Jacob Levy’s The Multiculturalism of Fear.
In this article, William L. Anderson reviews Judge Andrew P. Napolitano’s Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Laws.
In this article, Richard Sharvy discusses Plato’s Euthyphro.
Although the present paper is dedicated to a highly critical examination of Hoppe’s contributions to the field of immigration, we readily acknowledge at the outset that here, too, even though we cannot see our way clear to agreeing with his conclusions, his splendid, imaginative, and ingenious “footprints” can readily be seen.
