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
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
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
Who’s In Charge? Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997) PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWER Louis Fisher University Press of Kansas, 1995. xvi + 245 pgs. The conduct of contemporary American foreign policy flies in the face of the Constitution and much of our history. Of this unfortunate circumstance, readers of Louis Fisher’s definitive book will have no doubt.
The Jefferson Revisionism Hoax Mises Review 3, No. 1 (1997) THE LONG AFFAIR: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1785-1800 Conor Cruise O’ B rien University of Chicago Press, 1996, xvii + 367 pgs . Conor Cruise O’Brien lets the mask drop on p. 274 of his deplorable new book. Praising another writer on Jefferson, O’Brien remarks: “What is
Charmed Into Bloodshed Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Summer 1997) SELLING WAR: THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICAN “NEUTRALITY” IN WORLD WAR II Nicholas John Cull Oxford University Press, 1995, xv + 276 pgs. Great Britain learned an important lesson from World War I. American entry into that war in 1917 proved decisive. The American
Power Mad Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999 ) THE ROOSEVELT MYTH John T. Flynn Fox and Wilkes, [1948] 1998, xxiv + 437 pgs. Ralph Raico points out in his incisive introduction to this fiftieth anniversary edition of The Roosevelt Myth that many take sharp criticism of FDR to constitute sacrilege against the civic religion of the United States.
Warfare vs. American Liberty Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) FORGOTTEN LESSONS: SELECTED ESSAYS OF JOHN T. FLYNN Edited by Gregory P. Pavlik Foundation for Economic Education, 1996, vii + 199 pp. John T. Flynn is best known today as a once-liberal columnist for the New Republic who became a bitter enemy of Franklin Roosevelt and a stalwart of
The Sci-Fi Speaker Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) TO RENEW AMERICA Newt Gingrich Harper Collins, 1995, xii + 260 pp. To Renew America conveys a vivid sense of its author’s unusual personality. But the vital core of the book lies elsewhere. In the guise of a reassertion of American values, Speaker Gingrich prescribes a thoroughly statist
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