Island of Sanity Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) LITERATURE LOST John M. Ellis Yale University Press, 1997, x + 262 pgs. Like Martha Nussbaum, whose Cultivating Humanity is addressed above, John M. Ellis is concerned with multiculturalism. His excellent book, taken together with her less than excellent one, enables readers to gain a firm grasp
The Old South Exemplar Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE SOUTHERN FRONT: HISTORY AND POLITICS IN THE CULTURAL WAR Eugene D. Genovese University of Missouri Press, 1995, x + 320 pp. Eugene Genovese is a Marxist historian, but he is a Marxist of a most unusual kind. In this excellent collection of essays, he continually advocates conservative
Neither Content Nor Character Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) THE END OF RACISM: PRINCIPLES FOR A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY Dinesh D’Souza The Free Press, 1995, xi + 724 pp. D’Souza’s massive tome is structured by a simple message. Relations between whites and blacks in the contemporary United States are deep in crisis, but a way out exists. The
The Capitalist Muse Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998) IN PRAISE OF COMMERCIAL CULTURE Tyler Cowen Harvard University Press, 1998, xi + 278 pgs. Cultural pessimists such as John Ruskin claim that capitalism leads to a decline in literature, painting, and music. The market panders to the debased tastes of the masses and strikes a mortal blow at
The Culture Taboo Mises Review 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996) “BLOC BUSTERS” Virginia I. Postrel Reason , Volume 27, No. 9 (February 1996): 4, 6. Virginia Postrel gets a lot of mileage from an elementary fallacy. She begins her piece, a plea for Republicans to stress the free market rather than cultural issues, in an odd way. She throws up her hands in
Mises Review 15, No. 3 (Fall 2009) LITERATURE AND THE ECONOMICS OF LIBERTY: SPONTANEOUS ORDER IN CULTURE Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, xviii + 510 pgs. The contributors to this outstanding collection of essays propose a revolution in literary criticism — a revolution, moreover, that has as its heart the
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