When All Else Fails ... Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) “JAFFA ON GRAGLIA” Harry Jaffa National Review , Volume 47, No. 15 (August 14, 1995): 27–32 Lino Graglia, a distinguished constitutional lawyer at the University of Texas, has had it up to here with Harry Jaffa. A professed opponent of judicial activism, Jaffa in fact gives judges carte
A Libertarian’s Plea Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) SIMPLE RULES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD Richard A. Epstein Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv + 361 pgs. Richard Epstein’s excellent book is packed full of arguments which continually engage the reader, even if they do not always compel assent. He constructs a powerful case for a free-market social
America’s Many Propositions Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENTIONS: ON THE MAKING AND RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION M.E. Bradford University of Georgia Press, 1993, xxiv + 165 pp. By profession M. E. Bradford was a literary scholar, and Original Intentions , issued shortly after his untimely death, manifests his
Not Even Scholars Are Equal Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Harry V. Jaffa Regnery Gateway, 1994, xv + 408 pp. Peter Abelard confounded the readers of Sic et Non by placing side-by-side opinions of the Church Fathers that seemed contradictory, while offering no reconciliation. Harry Jaffa has
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