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[ The Anatomy of Criticism: A Trialogue • By Henry Hazlitt • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007 • 303 pages. A longer version of this review was first published at Prometheus Unbound (2011).] Remembered mostly for his contributions to economics, including his pithy and still-timely classic Economics in One Lesson (1946) , Henry Hazlitt was a man who

[ The Journal of Liberty and Society (2011)] In an October 2002 article in the New York Times , “Next on the Syllabus, Romeo v. Juliet,” Adam Liptak investigates the curious if questionable move to install literary texts in law-school curricula. Liptak’s opening lines betray his skepticism: The fact [that Kafka was a lawyer] got the discussion

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) Ralph Waldo Emerson is politically elusive. He’s so elusive that thinkers from various schools and with various agendas have appropriated his ideas to validate some activity or another. Harold Bloom once wrote, “In the United States, we continue to have Emersonians of the Left (the post-Pragmatist Richard Rorty) and

The following excerpt is adapted from Mendenhall’s review of Deirdre McCloskey’s book  Bourgeois Equality ; the original review, which appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , is  available here . If it’s true that Wayne Booth inspired Deirdre McCloskey’s interest in the study of rhetoric, then it’s also true — happily, in my view

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) If it’s true that Wayne Booth inspired Deirdre McCloskey’s interest in the study of rhetoric, then it’s also true—happily, in my view—that McCloskey has refused to mimic Booth’s programmatic, formulaic methods and boorish insistence on prosaic succinctness. Bourgeois Equality is

If you’re looking for a short introduction to socialism that rewards rereading, Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Problem With Socialism   is it. Perhaps your son or daughter has returned from college talking about collective control of the means of production and sporting Bernie Sanders t-shirts. Perhaps you’re a political novice looking for informed

The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications is a nonprofit accrediting agency for journalism programs. Bradley Hamm, the dean at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, has called the council’s accreditation-review process “flawed,” “superficial,” “extremely time-consuming,” and “sort of a low bar.” So he’s

A Conversation with Allen Mendenhall ​ A frequent collaborator with the Mises Institute, Allen Mendenhall is associate dean and executive director of the Blackstone & Burke Center for Law and Liberty at Faulkner University and is the author of  Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism  (2014) and  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,

I moved to Auburn, Alabama, in January 2013. I love Auburn. It’s been nearly ten years since The Wall Street Journal profiled the Mises Institute and claimed that Auburn was an ideal spot for studying libertarian ideas and the Austrian tradition. I don’t know how much has changed since then, but I arrived in Auburn expecting a free-market

Earlier this month, prominent names in the conservative movement gathered in Washington, DC, for a conference on “National Conservatism.” Speakers included such luminaries as Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, John Bolton, Michael Anton, Rich Lowry, Yuval Levin, and Josh Hawley. Representing the academy were F.H. Buckley, Charles Kesler, Amy