The Free Market 14, no. 6 (March 1996) In 1984, at a Mises Institute conference in Houston, some of us met O.P. Alford, III, for the first time. He was a quiet gentleman dressed in unassuming khaki trousers and shirt. His intelligence was evident and his manners were strikingly aristocratic. Those who visited with him that weekend noticed
The Free Market 14, no. 6 (June 1996) “Every great statesman must necessarily fail,” wrote Andrew Lytle in a moving tribute to John C. Calhoun. The reason: the statesman is driven by high ideals like freedom, self-government, justice, and constitutionalism, which will never be perfectly realized. Yet even in failure, the statesman preserves
The Limits of Pluralism Mises Review 2, No. 4 (Winter 1996) ISAIAH BERLIN John Gray Princeton University Press, 1996, viii + 189 pgs. The intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin has achieved great renown for essays that range from the analysis of liberty to memoirs of Russian poets. But if John Gray is correct, Sir Isaiah has been grossly underrated:
Communism For Kids Mises Review 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996) IT TAKES A VILLAGE: AND OTHER LESSONS CHILDREN TEACH US Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster, 1996, 319 pgs. Hillary Clinton is, to say the least, a controversial person; but a reader who had never heard of her before taking up this volume might never suspect it. She appears here in the
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