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[This article originally appeared on LewRockwell.com.] Nearly every day brings new reports of the collapse of a large financial institution or the impending bankruptcy of a major company. Plans for bailouts and government intervention are in the air. Even those who profess devotion to free enterprise have wavered. Are we not faced with an
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[ The Meaning of Sarkozy . By Alain Badiou. Verso, 2008. 117 pages.] This book provides evidence of the abysmal intellectual standards of much of contemporary Continental philosophy. Long-discredited dogmas of Marxism, accompanied by frequent references to Lenin and Mao as purveyors of wisdom, form the backbone of this deplorable book. Yet the
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[Book Review: The Post-American World . By Fareed Zakaria. Norton, 2008. 292 pages.] Fareed Zakaria poses a fundamental question. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, America has dominated the world. How long can we remain in this position? Zakaria foresees an end to our dominance, as other powers, especially China and India, continue to grow
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[ The Rise and Decline of the State • By Martin van Creveld • Cambridge University Press, 1999 • 439 pages] Martin van Creveld’s outstanding book traces the origin, growth, and decline of what Nietzsche termed, “that coldest of all cold monsters, the state.” By “state,” our author means something more limited than do contemporary libertarians. To
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[” World War I: The Turning Point” by Ralph Raico in The Costs of War: America ‘ s Pyrrhic Victories , Edited by John V. Denson • Second Expanded Edition • Transaction Publishers, 1999 • 535 pages] Assault Under Gas” by Otto Dix (1891–1969) The second edition of this outstanding book includes two new chapters, one of which merits extensive notice.
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“DiLorenzo traces the onset of war to Southern resistance to the nationalist economic program.” Why is The Real Lincoln so much superior to Harry Jaffa’s A New Birth of Freedom ? Jaffa offers a purely textual study: as if he were dealing with Aristotle or Dante, he considers every nuance he can discover or manufacture in Lincoln’s speeches.
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Murray Rothbard tells us that his gigantic, two-volume work was first envisioned as a “standard Smith-to-the-present moderately sized book, a sort of contra-[Robert] Heilbroner” (p. xv). When we see what has emerged from that plan, a parallel at once springs to mind: Cervantes began Don Quixote as a short story, but he gradually expanded it into