The Return of Anti-Imperialism Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) ISOLATIONISM RECONFIGURED: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY FOR A NEW CENTURY Eric A. Nordlinger Princeton University Press, 1995, x + 335 pgs. Ever since World War II, the traditional American foreign policy of nonintervention in foreign affairs has had a bad press. Isolationism, it is
Right by Half Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) WHAT’S RIGHT: THE NEW CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY AND THE REMAKING OF AMERICA David Frum Basic Books, 1996, xv + 208 pgs. David Frum’s new collection of essays and columns is like the curate’s egg good in parts. He sometimes provides insightful defenses of the free market; but curious blind spots spoil
Bill-of-Rights Despotism Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) THE NINTH AMENDMENT AND THE POLITICS OF CREATIVE JURISPRUDENCE Marshall L. De Rosa Transaction Publishers, 1996, viii + 216 pgs. Professor Marshall De Rosa’s excellent book calls attention to a paradox in recent constitutional law. The Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides:
Delusions of a Convert Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) UP FROM CONSERVATISM: WHY THE RIGHT IS WRONG FOR AMERICA Michael Lind The Free Press, 1996, viii + 295 pgs. As usual, my reviews have been too generous. Although Lind’s earlier work, The Next American Nation, struck me as fundamentally flawed, Lind seemed to me possessed of an interesting
Recognizing Brilliance Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) “REVIEW OF ROTHBARD” Roger Backhouse History of Economic Thought Newsletter 56 (Summer 1996): 16–21 A review of a book review is hardly standard procedure, but Backhouse’s article is a major scholarly assessment of Rothbard’s History. Backhouse, an eminent historian of economic thought,
Gray Areas Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) ENDGAMES: QUESTIONS IN LATE MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT John Gray Polity Press, 1997, xii + 212 pgs. John Gray is a hard man to pin down. Just when you think you have understood his position, he declares inadequate what he has advocated only moments before. Endgames thus marks a definite stage forward in
An Economist Scorned Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) THE VICES OF ECONOMISTS — THE VIRTUES OF THE BOURGEOISIE Deirdre N. McCloskey Amsterdam University Press, 1996, 135 pgs. Let me set readers’ minds at ease. As most people will have heard, our distinguished author has recently found the gender in which he was born overly confining. Donald
All in the Family? Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) MARX, HAYEK, AND UTOPIA Chris Matthew Sciabarra SUNY Press, 1995. x + 178 pgs. Within Marx, Hayek, and Utopia lies a very good book struggling to escape. Chris Sciabarra has asked a penetrating question and brought to light important material in his pursuit of an answer to it. Unfortunately, he
Wither’d Garland of War Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) THE COSTS OF WAR: AMERICA’S PYRRHIC VICTORIES John V. Denson, Editor Transaction Publishers, 1997, viii + 450 pgs. The contributors to this outstanding volume have grasped a simple but unfashionable truth: war is a great evil. It entails horrible suffering and death on a large scale and has
Whose Style? Which America? Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997) ASSIMILATION, AMERICAN STYLE Peter D. Salins Basic Books, 1997, xi + 259 pgs. Peter Salins, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, has good news. Americans need no longer worry about immigration, so long as a simple and straightforward plan is adopted: all immigrants
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