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
The Language of Law Mises Review 5, No. 2 (Summer 1999) THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PRIDE OF REASON Steven D. Smith Oxford University Press, 1998, xiii + 203 pgs. Professor Smith has written a book that is an excellent example of a type of scholarship it is at pains to criticize. As our author sees matters, many modern constitutional law professors
Tilting at the Regime Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) THE END OF DEMOCRACY? THE JUDICIAL USURPATION OF POLITICS Richard John Neuhaus, et al. Spence Publishing, 1997, xiii + 289 pgs . In November 1996, the journal First Things published a symposium that sharply criticized recent federal court decisions on abortion, euthanasia, and homosexual
More Equal Than Others Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DOOMED? Ronald Dworkin The New York Review of Books XLV, No. 17, (November 5, 1998): 56–61 Conservatives, at least since the “Impeach Earl Warren” days, have viewed the Supreme Court with less than full enthusiasm. Are we too critical? Surely the Court cannot have
In Praise of Centralism Mises Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1999) A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: HUMAN RIGHTS NAMED AND UNNAMED Charles L. Black, Jr. Yale University Press, [1997] 1999, xx + 176 pgs. As soon as you glance at this book’s dedication, you know that you are in for it: “To the sacred memory of Abraham Lincoln.” Mr. Black long held court at the
How High The Court? Mises Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996) JUDICIAL DICTATORSHIP William J. Quirk and R. Randall Bridwell Transaction Publishers, 1995. xv + 143 pgs. Everyone talks about the Supreme Court, but no one ever does anything about it. Many Supreme Court decisions have aroused fierce controversy within the past fifty years: Brown v. Board
One Man, One Creed Mises Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996) THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FRAUD Clint Bolick Cato Institute, 1996, x + 170 pgs. Clint Bolick, it appears, does not suffer from the vice of false modesty. Mr. Bolick attracted considerable attention owing to his opposition to Lani Guiniers nomination as Assistant Attorney General for Civil
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