Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land, by Sanford Lakoff
Sanford Lakoff admires Max Lerner greatly. As a student of Lerner's at Brandeis University in 1949, his "adulation soon became obvious and made me the butt of jokes."
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Goethe on National Greatness
This year marks the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest of all German writers and poets and one of the giants of world literature. In his political outlook, he was also a thorough-going classical liberal, arguing that free trade and free cultural exchange are the keys to authentic national and international integration. He argued and fought against the expansion, centralization, and unification of government on grounds that these trends can only hinder prosperity and true cultural development
Mises Takes the Prize
Why the achievements of Ludwig von Mises have been unjustly overlooked by academia. (An essay by James P. Philbin.)
Wilhelm Röpke
A tribute to a hero of our times on the centenary of his birth, by Shawn Ritenour.
The Roosevelt Myth, by John Flynn
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.
Mises at the Millennium
In this year of Millennium Lists ("Best Ten Songs of the Millennium," etc.), the Wall Street Journal tried its hand at the ten economists--whom it called the "best and brightest"--who have "made a difference" in the last thousand years. Of course, the big problem in twentieth-century intellectual history is that the "best and the brightest" were not the ones who "made a difference." While the list did contain some names to cheer (Aquinas, Hayek, and Schumpeter) it also had plenty to boo (Marx, Keynes, and Veblen).
