The War Over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission by Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol (Encounter Books, 2003, x + 153 pgs.) This book frightens me. The authors do not confine themselves to a justification of the American invasion of Iraq, which began shortly after their book was published. They offer a plan by which this war is but
This review of Epistemological Problems of Economics by Ludwig von Mises (Third Edition; translated by George Reisman. Introduction by Jörg Guido Hülsmann. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003. Lxxxi + 257 pgs.) appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of The Mises Review ] As every reader of Human Action knows, Ludwig von Mises devoted much attention to
A version of this review appears in the Winter issue of The Mises Review , the literary review publication of the Mises Institute archived here . Also, you can subscribe here . War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. By Chris Hedges. Anchor Books, 2002. 211 pgs. What Every Person Should Know About War. By Chris Hedges. Free Press, 2003. Xvi + 175
Robert Andelson , Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Auburn University , died this past weekend. I met him at one of the early Austrian Scholars Conferences of the Mises Institute in the 1990s and immediately became friends with him. He was a warm, genial person, with a wealth of hilarious stories about people and incidents in his life. All of
The Violent State Mises Review 9, No. 1 (Spring 2003) THE WAR OVER IRAQ: SADDAM’S TYRANNY AND AMERICA’S MISSION Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol Encounter Books, 2003, x + 153 pgs. This book frightens me. The authors do not confine themselves to a justification of the American invasion of Iraq, which began shortly after their book was
Can Liberty Limit War? Mises Review 9, No.1 (Spring 2003) THE NOMOS OF THE EARTH IN THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE JUS PUBLICUM EUROPAEUM Carl Schmitt Translated by G.L. Ulmen Telos Press, 2003, 372 pgs. Carl Schmitt offers a fundamental criticism of a way of thinking about politics and power. If he is right, some libertarians, among many
The Limits of Grace Mises Review 9, No. 1 (Spring 2003) BEING RECONCILED: ONTOLOGY AND PARDON Politics: Socialism by Grace John Milbank Routledge, 2003, pp. 162–186. I expected better of John Milbank. He is a theologian of great distinction, the leading theorist of the influential Radical Orthodoxy movement. Would not so profound a thinker offer
Morality and its Opposite Mises Review 9, No. 1 (Spring 2003) AFTER THE TERROR Ted Honderich. Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Vii + 160 pgs. As all readers of The Mises Review know, I always endeavor to avoid saying something bad about a book. But I cannot forbear from stating that Professor Honderich’s book is a cheap and tawdry affair.
The Secret Locke Mises Review 9, No. 1 (Spring 2003) LAUNCHING LIBERALISM: ON LOCKEAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Michael P. Zuckert University Press of Kansas, 2002, xi + 375 pgs. Professor Zuckert has taken on a task that not even his outstanding scholarly and philosophical abilities enable him to accomplish. He endeavors to defend Leo Strauss’s
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