When All Else Fails ... Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) “JAFFA ON GRAGLIA” Harry Jaffa National Review , Volume 47, No. 15 (August 14, 1995): 27–32 Lino Graglia, a distinguished constitutional lawyer at the University of Texas, has had it up to here with Harry Jaffa. A professed opponent of judicial activism, Jaffa in fact gives judges carte
A New Socialism? Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) A FUTURE FOR SOCIALISM John E. Roemer Harvard University Press, 1994. viii + 178 pg John Roemer is a brave man. Few American economists today are prepared to defend full-fledged socialism; after the Soviet Union’s collapse, even Robert Heilbroner, that quintessential leftist, had words of praise
A Libertarian’s Plea Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) SIMPLE RULES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD Richard A. Epstein Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv + 361 pgs. Richard Epstein’s excellent book is packed full of arguments which continually engage the reader, even if they do not always compel assent. He constructs a powerful case for a free-market social
The Small Matter of Truth Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) THE REVOLT OF THE ELITES AND THE BETRAYAL OF DEMOCRACY Christopher Lasch W.W. Norton, 1995. x + 276 pgs. Christopher Lasch loved debate; and in The Revolt of the Elites , a collection of his essays published posthumously, he indicts the American upper and professional classes for
Beyond The Beltway With Burnham Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) BEAUTIFUL LOSERS Samuel Francis University of Missouri Press, 1993. x + 237 pgs. The heart of Samuel Francis’s brilliant criticism of contemporary American conservatism is found in his essay “The Other Side of Modernism”, included in the present collection. Most conservatives, he
Toward An Austrian Politics Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL Raimondo Cubeddu Routledge, 1993. xiv + 269 pgs. Raimondo Cubeddu approaches Austrian economics from an interesting angle. He asks: what implications does it have for political theory? The author has carried out his investigation with extraordinary
Lost In The Move? Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: THE MIGRATION OF A TRADITION Karen I. Vaughn Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv + 198 pgs. I closed Karen Vaughn’s Austrian Economics in America with a sense of disappointment. In several ways, as it seems to me, it fundamentally misconceives its topic. Vaughn
Post-Charlatanism Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) “ECONOMIC CONSEQUENTIALISM AND BEYOND” Jeffrey Friedman Critical Review ( Fall, 1994) 493–502 The first part of Jeffrey Friedman’s piece, an account of the stages in the intellectual evolution of Critical Review , led me to have hope for him and his journal. I do not regularly see Critical Review
Gingrich’s Gurus Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) CREATING A NEW CIVILIZATION: THE POLITICS OF THE THIRD WAVE Alvin and Heidi Toffler Foreword by Newt Gingrich Turner Publishing, 1995, 112 pp. Newt Gingrich claims that “Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framwork of a dynamic, exciting
America’s Many Propositions Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENTIONS: ON THE MAKING AND RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION M.E. Bradford University of Georgia Press, 1993, xxiv + 165 pp. By profession M. E. Bradford was a literary scholar, and Original Intentions , issued shortly after his untimely death, manifests his
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