Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986 by James Rosen Regnery Publishing, 2023 496 pages James Rosen, who has written biographies of John Mitchell and Dick Cheney, and was for many years a reporter for Fox News, has found an ideal biographical subject in Antonin Scalia,, who served for thirty years on the Supreme Court. The volume under review, the
James Grant is editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer , which he founded in 1983. He is the author of nine books, including Money of the Mind, The Trouble with Prosperity , John Adams: Party of One , The Forgotten Depression , and more recently Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian . In 2015 Grant received the prestigious Gerald
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed By Andrew Bacevich Metropolitan Books, 2021 Xiv + 206 pages Andrew Bacevich, a history professor at Boston University for twenty-three years, has written an excellent book on American foreign policy, but it is embedded within a larger and more questionable book. Fortunately, the merits
James Grant is editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer , which he founded in 1983. He is the author of nine books, including Money of the Mind, The Trouble with Prosperity , John Adams: Party of One , The Forgotten Depression , and more recently Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian . In 2015 Grant received the prestigious Gerald
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti Basic Books, 2022 503 pp. Why should readers of The Austrian be interested in this book? At first glance, it appears that we shouldn’t be. Though the history of American conservatism is of great importance, and the author has amassed a great deal of information about
As I read The Executive Unbound , I found myself in a world turned upside down. I take the following to be not only true, but obviously true: Today and in the recent past, all-but-uncheckable presidents have involved us in unneeded wars, invaded our liberties, and subjected us to economic controls that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to fascism.
Presidential elections in the United States spawn Really Bad Economic Policies, and 2016 is a vintage year. Bernie Sanders is resurrecting socialism, and others seek to outdo him. However, before leaping into the abyss of campaign rhetoric, I first note that none of the current candidates are doing what Ron Paul did during his presidential primary
Few books have as misleading a title as Hard Choices . For Hillary Clinton, as this tedious memoir of her years as Secretary of State makes evident, there are no hard choices. The Solutions to all political and economic problems are easy. We must always rely on the directing hand of government, guided by the superior wisdom of our moral and
During the period 1980s and 1990s, the desirability of the “independence from politics” of central banks became almost an article of faith among mainstream macroeconomists and those operating in financial markets. This development was driven by two factors: academic research on central banking; and the personality cults that grew up around the two
Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong Harvard Business Press Review, 2016 xi + 223 pages Cohen and DeLong are well-known economists, but they indict their fellow economists for an overemphasis on theory. Away with models that have little relation to reality, our authors say.
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.