Only If It’s Peaceful Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998) “IMMIGRATION SYMPOSIUM” Ralph Raico, Ed. Journal of Libertarian Studies 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998) Most libertarians have in recent years favored “open borders,” but this indispensable collection of articles throws that view into serious question. Some of the contributors, e.g., Walter Block,
Deconstructing Rorty Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998) ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: LEFTIST THOUGHT IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA Richard Rorty Harvard University Press, 1998, 159 pgs. Richard Rorty is a distinguished analytic philosopher, but you would never know it from this vulgar screed. Our author makes clear the basic assumptions of “infantile
Unwitting Racial Heretic Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998) THE ORDEAL OF INTEGRATION: PROGRESS AND RESENTMENT IN AMERICA’S “RACIAL” CRISIS Orlando Patterson Cities/Counterpoint, 1997,233 pgs. Orlando Patterson, a Jamaican sociologist now teaching at Harvard, does not like being termed a conservative for his views on black-white relations in the
Austrian Influence Mises Review 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998) A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Paul Johnson Harper Collins, 1997, pp. 727–46 Chapters: “Government Credit-Management and the Wall Street Crash” “Why the Depression Was So Deep and Long-Lasting” “The Failure of the Great Engineer” I hope to review Mr. Johnson’s massive work in the next
New Slavery for Old Mises Review 4, No. 1 (Spring 1998) DRAWN WITH THE SWORD James M. McPherson Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv+258 pgs. As usual, let us begin with a paradox. James McPherson, a leading historian of the Civil War, ardently supports the Union cause and views Abraham Lincoln as an outstanding champion of “positive liberalism”
America’s Original Sin Mises Review 4, No. 1 (Spring 1998) VINDICATING THE FOUNDERS Thomas G. West Rowman Littlefield, 1997, xv + 218 pgs. Vindicating the Founders is better than I thought it would be. The author proceeds from an excellent idea. The framers have of late come under attack by leftists of various sorts. As these ideologues see
Why monoculturalism? Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) LIBERAL RACISM Jim Sleeper Penguin Books, [1997] 1998, 195 pgs. This, I am afraid, is an almost perfectly useless book. Its main thesis may be stated quite simply. White liberals have abandoned the true goals of the civil rights movement--joint participation by whites and blacks in a
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