Book Reviews

Audrey Kline reviews Stephen P. Halbrook's The Right to Bear Arms, tracing gun rights from medieval times to the present day.

Jason Morgan reviews Zachary Carter's new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes, finding it "an essential read" which, with admirable even-handedness, presents the Keynesian world to readers, warts and all.

Allen Mendenhall reviews Eric Graf's new book on Don Quijote, which advances the liberal tradition and adds to a slowly growing stock of libertarian literary criticism.

Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization.

In many ways, the American war crimes of Korea and Vietnam were a continuation of American military conduct in the Civil War and during the Indian wars. 

Contracts are voidable and thoroughly changeable. They can be totally ignored with the consent of both parties. But natural rights are not like contracts and can't be abolished even with consent.

"You do not exploit people by offering them jobs, even if you could have made them an offer they would have found even more desirable."

Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization.

In many ways, the American war crimes of Korea and Vietnam were a continuation of American military conduct in the Civil War and during the Indian wars. 

Contracts are voidable and thoroughly changeable. They can be totally ignored with the consent of both parties. But natural rights are not like contracts and can't be abolished even with consent.