Revolution and Secession Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002) “THE UNREAL LINCOLN” Ken Masugi National Review , Vol. 54, No. 19 (October 14, 2002): 61–63 Tom DiLorenzo is well able to look out for himself, but one comment in Ken Masugi’s review of his book on Lincoln merits our attention. Masugi, a disciple of Harry Jaffa, whose worship of Lincoln
The Hayekian Prism Mises Review 10, No. 1 (Spring 2004) HAYEK’S CHALLENGE: AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF F.A. HAYEK Bruce Caldwell University of Chicago Press, 2004, xi + 489 pgs. Bruce Caldwell has adopted a sensible strategy to cope with the formidable task he has set himself. Friedrich von Hayek was not only one of the most eminent economists
The Morals of Nations Mises Review 10, No. 3 (Fall 2004) ADAM SMITH’S MARKETPLACE OF LIFE James R. Otteson Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi + 338 pgs. In his An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , Murray Rothbard toppled Adam Smith from his place as the founder of modern economics. Far from being a bold innovator, Smith
Szasz on the Liberal Tradition Mises Review 10, No. 3 (Fall 1996) FAITH IN FREEDOM: LIBERTARIAN PRINCIPLES AND PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICES Thomas Szasz Transaction Publishers, 2004, xvi + 264 pgs. Thomas Szasz has long been the foremost critic of involuntary psychiatric commitment, and his many books on psychiatric tyranny have won for him a
Lincoln’s Despotic Dream Mises Review 11, No. 2 (Summer 2005) WHAT LINCOLN BELIEVED: THE VALUES AND CONVICTIONS OF AMERICA’S GREATEST PRESIDENT Michael Lind Doubleday, 2005, 358 pgs. Michael Lind’s study of Lincoln illustrates the old saying, “God protect me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.” He maintains that Lincoln
Mises Review 13, No. 2 (Summer 2007) LINCOLN UNMASKED: WHAT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT DISHONEST ABE Thomas J. DiLorenzo Crown Forum, 2006, 223 pgs. Thomas DiLorenzo calls attention to a vital fact that demolishes the popular view that one of Lincoln’s primary motives for opposing secession in 1861 was his distaste for slavery. Precisely
Mises Review 13, No. 4 (Winter 2007) MISES: THE LAST KNIGHT OF LIBERALISM Jörg Guido Hülsmann Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007, xvi + 1,143 pgs. Guido Hülsmann shows us in this monumental biography that a common view of Mises is mistaken. As even Macaulay’s schoolboy knows, the American economics profession, dominated by Keynesianism, shunted
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) VINDICATING LINCOLN: DEFENDING THE POLITICS OF OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT Thomas L. Krannawitter Roman & Littlefield, 2008, xv + 355 pgs. When I reached page 222 of Vindicating Lincoln , I almost threw the book across the room. There I read, “First, the latest iterations of European philosophy during the antebellum
Nathaniel Branden died today. He was for many years the leading follower of Ayn Rand and lectured widely on her philosophy of Objectivism. He and Rand split in 1968, and after that his main work was in the psychology of self-esteem. He was by all accounts a dynamic and effective lecturer. For a brief time, Murray Rothbard and his followers in the
Tibor Machan passed away yesterday, a few days after his 77 th birthday. It is hard to believe that Tibor is no longer with us, as he was a man of indefatigable energy. He was an ardent defender of libertarianism; and in a vast number of publications, he showed a rare ability to apply philosophical principles to contemporary issues. In
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