From an LRC blog by Daniel McCarthy:
I’m spending the summer as a research fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. One of the perks of this role is having access to copies of the institute’s various publications -- including the Mises Review.
For readers unfamiliar with it, the Mises Review is a quarterly review, 27 or so pages per issue, entirely written by David Gordon. I don’t know if Dr. Gordon meets the formal definition of a polymath, but if he doesn’t he’s still the closest thing to one that I’ve ever met.
I had no idea just how good the Mises Review was until today. Its reviews are of the sort that make you appreciate, and enjoy, the books in question more than you otherwise would. Good books become better, and bad books become bad in interesting ways. Dr. Gordon’s recommendations are, in my opinion, spot on: in the Fall 2000 issue he sees considerable merit in Stanley Fish’s The Trouble With Principle, and cause for some alarm in the collected Published Essays, 1953-1965 of Eric Voegelin.
It’s the kind of thing that’s well worth subscribing too -- if you like LRC, you’ll really like David Gordon’s reviews. But it turns out that the Mises Institute is once again giving away the candy store -- back issues and selections from the most recent Mises Review are on-line! You can read the Fish and Voegelin reviews here and here.
Of course, you can still subscribe, too. After all, whatever money you give the Mises Institute will go to a good cause: fighting federal bureaucrats, neocons and statists of all stripes, and supporting the work of scholars like Dr. Gordon.
