Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005) DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM Larry Arnhart Imprint-Academic, 2005, iv + 156 pgs. The title of Larry Arnhart’s valuable book seems a paradox. What has Darwinism, a theory about the origins of biological species, to do with a political viewpoint? Arnhart takes conservatism in a broad sense, so that classical liberalism
Though it is easy to characterize democracy, recent political theory has been marked by a conspicuous omission. Virtually no argument is ever offered to support the desirability of representative democracy, and the little that is available seems distressingly weak. Why ought democracy to be either instituted or promoted, let alone exported, as a
From the Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1995.
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