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Shawn Ritenour

Tyler Cowen has two great aims in his new book on government arts funding. One is to explain the distinctions between what he calls the aesthetic perspective and the economic perspective.

Leland B. Yeager

In this Journal of Spring 2000, Robert Tollison joins David Laband in reiterating a stretched conception of market test.  Laband and Tollison recommend grading academic performance 

Richard Vedder

Persons with an Austrian perspective must evaluate the probability that an Austrian message will reduce their publication chances in mainstream journals.

Dale Steinreich

The Bias Against Guns is overall a less technical book than More Guns, Less Crime, but in its later chapters, quite a few portions are still way over the heads of most laypersons.

Thomas S. Szasz

Of all the lying truths popular today, one of the most important is surely the mendacity inherent in the term “mental illness.” In addi

Stephen D. Cox

Ayn Rand occupies a curious position among American novelists: Both her friendly and her hostile critics scarcely regard her as a novelist at all.

Richard Jensen

Although historians had long missed the importance of religion in American politics, it has recently become a central topic.

Gary North

Murray Rothbard was seriously interested in a remarkably large array of topics, one of them being the effects of rival eschatological views during

William R. Havender

One sign of the lengthy distance we have traveled away from the liberal, individualist origins of the American political order is the surprising pr