The Free Market 13, no. 12 (December 1995) Cheers to the governors of Alabama and Virginia for sending back millions of dollars earmarked for the “Goals 2000” program slated to be imposed on their states’ schools. After decades of federal attacks on local control, they have responded to voter demands that school centralization be halted. Today,
When All Else Fails ... Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995) “JAFFA ON GRAGLIA” Harry Jaffa National Review , Volume 47, No. 15 (August 14, 1995): 27–32 Lino Graglia, a distinguished constitutional lawyer at the University of Texas, has had it up to here with Harry Jaffa. A professed opponent of judicial activism, Jaffa in fact gives judges carte
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
America’s Many Propositions Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENTIONS: ON THE MAKING AND RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION M.E. Bradford University of Georgia Press, 1993, xxiv + 165 pp. By profession M. E. Bradford was a literary scholar, and Original Intentions , issued shortly after his untimely death, manifests his
Not Even Scholars Are Equal Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Harry V. Jaffa Regnery Gateway, 1994, xv + 408 pp. Peter Abelard confounded the readers of Sic et Non by placing side-by-side opinions of the Church Fathers that seemed contradictory, while offering no reconciliation. Harry Jaffa has
The Free Market 13, no. 3 (March 1995) How can business comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act? It can’t. The ADA has created an inescapable trap for companies, a bottomless pit for liberty and property, and an unremitting excuse for harassment and control. John Casey, writing in the University of Puget Sound Law Review (Winter 1994),
The Free Market 13, no. 5 (May 1995) Steve Stockman, among the best of Washington’s freshmen Congressmen, holds a daily prayer session that staff members attend voluntarily. Last year, nobody could have stopped it. But thanks to the “Contract With America,” Congress now has to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The ACLU says Stockman may be
The Free Market 13, no. 10 (October 1995) There are many curious aspects to the latest flag fracas. There is the absurdity of the proposed change in our basic constitutional framework by treating such minor specifics as a flag law. There is the proposal to outlaw “desecration” of the American flag. “Desecration” means “to divest of a sacred
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