Mises Review 14, No. 2 (Summer 2008) THE REVOLUTION: A MANIFESTO Ron Paul Grand Central Publishing, 2008, xi + 173 pgs. In his historic campaign for president, Ron Paul again and again held up the Constitution as a benchmark to judge the policies of the American government. For this, some libertarians criticized him. Was Paul not guilty of
Mises Review 14, No. 2 (Summer 2008) A CENTURY OF WAR: LINCOLN, WILSON, AND ROOSEVELT John V. Denson Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006, 207 pgs. Judge Denson has, in this excellent book, expertly solved a difficult problem. Wars are a principal means for the state to increase its power. The classic work on this theme by Robert Higgs, Crisis and
Mises Review 14, No. 2 (Summer 2008) HOW MUCH MONEY DOES AN ECONOMY NEED? SOLVING THE CENTRAL ECONOMIC PUZZLE OF MONEY, PRICES, AND JOBS Hunter Lewis Axios Press, 2008, vi + 185 pgs. In Are the Rich Necessary? Hunter Lewis showed himself to be a master of dialectics; and he here applies the same method to monetary theory. Not content to expound
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) WHO KILLED THE CONSTITUTION? THE FATE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY FROM WORLD WAR I TO GEORGE W. BUSH Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman Crown Forum, 2008, viii + 259 pgs. The question posed by the title of this book raises a further question, as the authors are well aware. If the Constitution is indeed dead, why
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) SMART POWER: TOWARD A PRUDENT FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICA T ed Galen Carpenter Cato Institute, 2008, xi + 258 pgs. Ted Galen Carpenter has given us, on the whole, an excellent and very useful book; but it contains a crucial flaw. The book, which collects essays and columns that Carpenter has written since 2002,
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) ANARCHISM/MINARCHISM: IS A GOVERNMENT PART OF A FREE COUNTRY? Roderick T. Long and Tibor R. Machan Ashgate, 2008, xi + 196 pgs. Libertarians of course believe in the free market; if you find someone who favors the government provision of medical care or education, e.g., you know immediately that he is not a
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) SOVEREIGNTY: GOD, STATE, AND SELF Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, 2008, xvii + 334 pgs. Several years ago, I wrote a diatribe against Jean Elshtain’s Just War Against Terror . She was not altogether pleased by this and sent in a letter of protest, which evoked yet more venom from me. [1] Readers anxious for a
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) VINDICATING LINCOLN: DEFENDING THE POLITICS OF OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT Thomas L. Krannawitter Roman & Littlefield, 2008, xv + 355 pgs. When I reached page 222 of Vindicating Lincoln , I almost threw the book across the room. There I read, “First, the latest iterations of European philosophy during the antebellum
Mises Review 14, No. 3 (Fall 2008) A NATION OF SHEEP Andrew P. Napolitano Thomas Nelson, 2007, xiii + 240 pgs. Judge Napolitano has organized his excellent book around a central metaphor. He contrasts sheep, who follow their shepherd with unquestioning devotion, and wolves, who are alert to protect themselves: There are two kinds of people who
Mises Review 14, No. 4 (Winter 2008) RESCUING JUSTICE AND EQUALITY G.A. Cohen Harvard University Press, 2008, xvii + 430 pgs. The title of G.A. Cohen’s remarkable book suggests an obvious question. Cohen wishes to rescue justice and equality; but from whom or what are these in danger? Cohen’s target will strike many readers as surprising: it is
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