Mises Review 16, No. 1 (Spring 2010) JUSTICE: WHAT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO? Michael J. Sandel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 307 pages It is easy to see why Michael Sandel is a popular Harvard professor. He presents major ideas of ethics and political philosophy in a clear way, tied to important contemporary issues. Justice: What’s the Right
Mises Review 16, No. 1 (Spring 2010) LIBERTARIANISM TODAY Jacob H. Huebert Praeger, 2010, vii + 254 pgs. Jacob Huebert’s outstanding survey of libertarianism ranks as the best work of its kind since Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty . Huebert navigates successfully difficult waters. Many people, when they first hear of libertarianism, dismiss
Mises Review 16, No. 1 (Spring 2010) NEOCONSERVATISM: AN OBITUARY FOR AN IDEA C. Bradley Thompson and Yaron Brook Paradigm Publishers, 2010, 256 pgs. To most of us, neoconservatism is inevitably associated with the Iraq War. A group of neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan and David Frum, played with consummate folly a major role in urging
I met Antony Flew at a Mises Institute conference in 2001. He did not share the admiration common among philosophers for John Rawls. For him, The Theory of Justice was a travesty: Rawls’s failure to define justice until late in the book especially upset him. His vehemence, combined as it was with great charm, made an unforgettable impression.
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