Book Reviews

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on the question of unjust laws. Under what circumstances should people obey them anyway. Murray Rothbard helps to provide an answer.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Fred Reed’s latest work, which lambasts the American propensity to fight pointless yet destructive wars abroad, all the while destroying what is left of what was once a decent society at home.

Shahin Karkhaneh reviews Cronyism: Rise of the Corporatist State, 1849–1929 by Patrick Newman and published by the Mises Institute. 

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.