Not Even Scholars Are Equal Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Harry V. Jaffa Regnery Gateway, 1994, xv + 408 pp. Peter Abelard confounded the readers of Sic et Non by placing side-by-side opinions of the Church Fathers that seemed contradictory, while offering no reconciliation. Harry Jaffa has
Rothbard’s Last Triumph Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, VOLS I & II Murray N. Rothbard Edward Elgar, 1995, xvi + 556 pp. Murray Rothbard tells us that this gigantic work was first envisioned as a “standard Adam Smith-to-the-present moderately sized book, a sort of contra-[Robert]
An Unfaithful Companion Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) THE ELGAR COMPANION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Edited by Peter J. Boettke Edward Elgar, 1994, xvii + 628 pp. This entry in Edward Elgar’s Companion Series purports to be a survey and guide to modern Austrian economics. It contains eighty-seven articles on a variety of topics related to the
The Skeptic As Inquisitor Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) KINDLY INQUISITORS Jonathan Rauch University of Chicago Press, 1993. A Cato Institute Book, xi + 178 pp. According to journalist Jonathan Rauch, malign forces, subsumed under the categories Fundamentalists and Humanitarians, threaten freedom of thought and speech. Rauch hopes to thwart
Come One, Come All? Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ALIEN NATION: COMMON SENSE ABOUT AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION DISASTER Peter Brimelow Random House, 1995, xix + 327 pp. The customary approach to immigration by libertarians has been a simple one. No restrictions on freedom of entry into a country (or exit from it) can be justified; as Robert
Is It Rhetoric, Or Is It Nonsense? Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) KNOWLEDGE AND PERSUASION IN ECONOMICS Donald N. McCloskey Cambridge University Press. xviii + 445 pgs. This is a most peculiar book. As a glance at McCloskey’s enormous bibliography suffices to reveal, our author appears to have read everything. And he isn’t faking. As the text
The Bankers’ Cartel Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) THE CASE AGAINST THE FED Murray N. Rothbard Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1994, 158 pgs. Murray Rothbard begins this outstanding book by calling attention to a paradox. The Federal Reserve System enjoys virtual immunity from Congressional investigation. The few who propose to subject the Fed to
The Conscience Of A Canadian Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) DEAD RIGHT David Frum Basic Books, 1994, x + 230 pgs David Frum has identified a central problem affecting much of the American Right. But because he himself supports the Leviathan State to a greater extent than some of those he so readily condemns, he can offer nothing in the way of
Big Money, Small Thinkers Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) “WHY INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM DIED” Michael Lind Dissent (Winter, 1995): 42–47 Michael Lind maintains that intellectual conservatism collapsed over the past decade. Before the collapse, the two main varieties of mainstream conservatism “from the founding of National Review in 1955 to
Up From Buckleyism Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) CATHOLIC INTELLECTUALS AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICS IN AMERICA Patrick Allitt Cornell University Press, 1993, xiii +315 pgs. Patrick Allitt’s excellent book may be approached at two levels. On the one hand, Allitt has produced a old-fashioned narrative history, and his book is none the worse for
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