Book Reviews

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at philosopher Richard Miller’s stunning retreat from Marxism, the philosophy he espoused for most of his career.

As the Iran war and other events challenge US hegemony around the world, reality is forcing Americans to rethink what they once took for granted.

Rainer Zitelmann, the erstwhile defender of capitalism, takes his defense out of this world as he examines capitalism and space travel. Lipton Matthews, in this review of New Space Capitalism, gives it a thumbs up.

Murray Rothbard entered Columbia University at age 16 and by the time he was graduated from that institution with a Ph.D. in economics, he already had done path-breaking work in economics. His legacy has only grown since then.

Jacob Siegel visualizes that, in an information-state form of government, government’s ultimate control by voters would get replaced by the digital monopolization of voters’ attention, adjustment of voters’ perceptions, and conditioning of voters to see certain outcomes as inevitable.

The articles in this issue help us to understand the true meaning of both the Declaration of Independence and the revolutionary movement that produced it. And, what it is that we are actually celebrating on this 250th anniversary.

Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards suggests a connection between Austrian economics and a new wave of authoritarianism and racism.

Joshua Mawhorter reviews Dr. Shawn Ritenour’s Foundations of Economics: A Christian View.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes apart Yale law professor Samuel Moyn’s screed against people living longer than Moyn thinks appropriate.

Lying seems to come naturally to political elites. Dr. Mark Thornton examines John J. Mearsheimer’s book, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics to find out why elites lie so much.