Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986 by James Rosen Regnery Publishing, 2023 496 pages James Rosen, who has written biographies of John Mitchell and Dick Cheney, and was for many years a reporter for Fox News, has found an ideal biographical subject in Antonin Scalia,, who served for thirty years on the Supreme Court. The volume under review, the
[ The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution . By Kevin R.C. Gutzman. Regnery Publishing, 2007. Xiii + 258 pgs.] Kevin Gutzman gives his readers much more than they had a right to expect. The “Politically Incorrect Guide” series in which his book appears aims at a popular audience: its goal is to correct commonly held myths of leftist
[ 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask. By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Crown Publishers, 2007. c. 294 pgs.] Thomas Woods’s forbidden questions cover a variety of topics, but a common thread in his answers unifies the book: Throughout American history, the federal government has been the principal enemy of liberty. Within the
[ How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok . By Glenn Greenwald. Working Assets Publishing, 2006. 128 pages.] In this remarkable book, Glenn Greenwald solves a difficult problem. President Bush has for several years authorized the National Security Agency to wiretap telephones within the United States without a
[ Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution . By William J. Quirk. Transaction Publishers, 2008. Xviii + 312 pages.] Courts and Congress defends a revolutionary thesis. If asked, who has the final say in our government on the meaning of the Constitution, most people would say, the Supreme Court. The Court itself agrees: in the famous
[ Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State • By Garry Wills • Penguin Press, 2010 • 278 pages] I did not anticipate writing a favorable review of a book by Garry Wills. He veered fairly early in his career from a quirky form of conservatism to a run-of-the mill leftism. In his A Necessary Evil , he assailed the view that
[ Rule of Law, Misrule of Men • By Elaine Scarry • MIT Press: A Boston Review Book, 2010 • Xxii + 191 pages] Elaine Scarry, a distinguished English professor at Harvard, attracted great acclaim early in her academic career for her study The Body in Pain (1985). It is hardly surprising, then, that the use of torture in the Iraq War has attracted
Grant defeated Lee, the Confederacy crumbled, and the idea of secession disappeared forever, or at least that’s what the conventional wisdom says. Secession is no historical irrelevance. Quite the contrary, the topic is integral to classical liberalism. Indeed, the right of secession follows at once from the basic rights defended by classical
Who’s In Charge? Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997) PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWER Louis Fisher University Press of Kansas, 1995. xvi + 245 pgs. The conduct of contemporary American foreign policy flies in the face of the Constitution and much of our history. Of this unfortunate circumstance, readers of Louis Fisher’s definitive book will have no doubt.
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
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