Mises Review

As usual, let us begin with a paradox. James McPherson, a leading historian of the Civil War, ardently supports the Union cause and views Abraham Lincoln as an outstanding champion of "positive liberalism."

Socialism and War gathers together F.A. Hayek's most important papers on the socialist calculation debate. Although Hayek played a key role in this debate, his criticism of socialism was by no means confined to it.

G.A. Cohen is my favorite Marxist. He takes libertarian-political theory with extreme seriousness, and again and again he makes points devastating to socialism.G.A. 

Classical liberals of today think that true liberalism was highjacked sometime around the end of the nineteenth century. 

Even when compared with other works of philosophy, this is an odd book. Readers who have been spared much acquaintance with contemporary moral philosophy will be inclined to toss the book away when they learn its central thesis.

Professor Donald Boudreaux, recently installed as president of the Foundation for Economic Education, is off to a bad start. He offers some thoughts on immigration which to my mind succeed only in darkening counsel on this difficult topic.

Jeffrey Friedman introduces a special issue of his journal devoted to F.A. Hayek with a peculiar claim.

Freedom Betrayed is a spirited polemic in support of a contradictory thesis.

Andrew Koppelman is clearly a writer of considerable intelligence, and exceptionally well-read in political philosophy, ethics, and law. But he puts his talent in the service of a bizarre idea.

Like Martha Nussbaum, whose Cultivating Humanity is addressed above, John M. Ellis is concerned with multiculturalism.

Conservatives and leftists often characterize the struggle over the contemporary university in the same way, though of course accompanied by opposing value judgments.

ohn Robbins begins with an excellent idea, but unfortunately his book does not fulfill the promise of his initial project.

Ludwig von Mises's defense of the free market against its rivals extended far beyond the proof of the impossibility of socialist calculation for which he is best known. 

Peter Salins, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, has good news. Americans need no longer worry about immigration, so long as a simple and straightforward plan is adopted: all immigrants must assimilate.

The contributors to this outstanding volume have grasped a simple but unfashionable truth: war is a great evil. 

Within Marx, Hayek, and Utopia lies a very good book struggling to escape.

Let me set readers' minds at ease. As most people will have heard, our distinguished author has recently found the gender in which he was born overly confining.

John Gray is a hard man to pin down. Just when you think you have understood his position, he declares inadequate what he has advocated only moments before.

George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, thinks that the Timothy McVeigh trial teaches us an important lesson about the Constitution.

Doctoral dissertations seldom make good books. Even the most trivial assertion in a thesis must be footnoted; and the author, much to the reader's discomfort, must demonstrate his control of his subject in excruciating detail.