Book Reviews
This Professor Hates the Austrian School. But He Clearly Doesn’t Know Much about It.
Larson's principal targets are Friedman and Hayek, but Mises and Rothbard are not spared. For Larson, promarket economists aren't just wrong. They're bad people.
Book Review: The Right to Bear Arms
Audrey Kline reviews Stephen P. Halbrook's The Right to Bear Arms, tracing gun rights from medieval times to the present day.
Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha: Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern Novel
Allen Mendenhall reviews Eric Graf's new book on Don Quijote, which advances the liberal tradition and adds to a slowly growing stock of libertarian literary criticism.
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Jason Morgan reviews Zachary Carter's new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes, finding it "an essential read" which, with admirable even-handedness, presents the Keynesian world to readers, warts and all.
Why Care about Inequality?
Inequality can exist and grow even if everyone is becoming better off—but some are becoming more better off than others. Should we care about this kind of inequality?
How Media and Tech Elites Seized Control of Elections
Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization.
The Historical Origins of Modern American War Crimes
In many ways, the American war crimes of Korea and Vietnam were a continuation of American military conduct in the Civil War and during the Indian wars.
Contract Rights Are Not the Same as Natural Rights
Contracts are voidable and thoroughly changeable. They can be totally ignored with the consent of both parties. But natural rights are not like contracts and can't be abolished even with consent.
Why There Is No Free Lunch
"You do not exploit people by offering them jobs, even if you could have made them an offer they would have found even more desirable."