Book Reviews

Jeff Deist and Allen Mendenhall discuss the academic pretenses and foibles punctured by Kingsley Amis in his seminal send-up of campus life, Lucky Jim.

Steven Kates's new book debunks Keynesian demand-side economics, while striving to resurrect Say’s Law and revive the classical understanding of the economy.

Stalin’s War is a magnificent book and everyone interested in the causes and consequences of World War II—and what reasonable person could not be?—should read it.

Bill Anderson reviews Donway and Kolhatkar's collection of essays on the culture war. Though a non-academic book, it is a good resource for academic researchers and a worthwhile read.

Every time something good seemed to emerge from Tinbergen’s work, he seems to have managed to twist it in an awful direction.

Every time something good seemed to emerge from Tinbergen’s work, he seems to have managed to twist it in an awful direction.

It is not surprising that Keynes looks at the economy from the perspective of a government bureaucrat; this is exactly what, for a significant part of his life, he was. It was for his bureaucratic "service," not his economics, that he was elevated to the peerage.

The Papal States offer a helpful case study in understanding the transformation of Europe in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Kertzer's study on the topic is couched in faulty notions of enlightenment and medievalism. 

Jason Stanley's book on fascism is a jumbled mess which seems primarily to exist for the purpose of smearing everything Stanley doesn't like with the label of "fascism." 

Jason Stanley's book on fascism is a jumbled mess which seems primarily to exist for the purpose of smearing everything Stanley doesn't like with the label of "fascism."