The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) If it had the will, Congress could kill the redistributionist monster, the Welfare State, that’s consumed at least $5 trillion in wealth since the Great Society. How? Cut anywhere and everywhere, abolish whole agencies, and return the $350 billion saved from next year’s spending to the taxpayers in the
A Libertarian’s Plea Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) SIMPLE RULES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD Richard A. Epstein Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv + 361 pgs. Richard Epstein’s excellent book is packed full of arguments which continually engage the reader, even if they do not always compel assent. He constructs a powerful case for a free-market social
Beyond The Beltway With Burnham Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) BEAUTIFUL LOSERS Samuel Francis University of Missouri Press, 1993. x + 237 pgs. The heart of Samuel Francis’s brilliant criticism of contemporary American conservatism is found in his essay “The Other Side of Modernism”, included in the present collection. Most conservatives, he
Post-Charlatanism Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) “ECONOMIC CONSEQUENTIALISM AND BEYOND” Jeffrey Friedman Critical Review ( Fall, 1994) 493–502 The first part of Jeffrey Friedman’s piece, an account of the stages in the intellectual evolution of Critical Review , led me to have hope for him and his journal. I do not regularly see Critical Review
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
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
The Free Market 13, no. 5 (May 1995) When discussing the secession of Quebec from the Rest of Canada (ROC), many Anglo-Canadian economists become doomsday preachers of apocalyptic scenarios. They predict social calamities such as poverty, mass unemployment, civil war, and mass exodus. They should settle down, try to be rational, and focus on the
The Free Market 13, no. 6 (June 1995) The cords that bind the Union together are weaker than they have been in more than a century. Many states are entering into political revolt against federal encroachment. But this situation is no departure from American tradition. Revolting against consolidated government has been a key to keeping the
The Free Market 13, no. 8 (August 1995) Just a few years ago we had a bicentennial celebration of the Constitution. Republicanism and federalism, the two most salient features of the Constitution, were never mentioned. Instead we had a glorification of multiculturalism and the central state. Federalism is one of the least understood, both
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