Forty years ago, historian Ralph Raico completed his dissertation under the direction of F.A. Hayek at the University of Chicago. Its title masks its power and importance: The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton. It has been published for the first time by the Mises Institute, and this is not merely
The Free Market 15, no. 4 (April 1997) It is the widespread view in academia that John Maynard Keynes was a model classical liberal in the tradition of Locke, Jefferson, and Tocqueville. Like these men, it is commonly held, Keynes was a sincere, indeed, exemplary, believer in the free society. If he differed from the classical liberals in some
Churchill as Icon Opportunism and Rhetoric Churchill and the “New Liberalism” World War I Between the Wars Embroiling America in War—Again “First Catch Your Hare” War Crimes Discreetly Veiled 1945: The Dark Side The Triumph of the Welfare State Churchill as Icon When, in a very few years, the pundits start to pontificate on the great question:
[ Leon Trotsky • By Irving Howe • Viking Press, 1978 &bull 214 pages. This review originally appeared in Libertarian Review , March 1979.] Leon Trotsky has always had a certain appeal for intellectuals that the other Bolshevik leaders lacked. The reasons for this are clear enough. He was a writer, an occasional literary critic — according to
[ New Individualist Review , 1961] When Oswald Spengler in one of his minor books scornfully characterized German classical liberalism as “a bit of the spirit of England on German soil,” he was merely displaying the willful blindness of the school of militaristic statist German historians, who refused to acknowledge as a true compatriot any
“He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the attainment in France and in other nations of a free society; and at the time when classical liberalism was the specter haunting Europe — in the second and third decades of the
The Free Market 15, no. 4 (abril de 1997) Es la opinión generalizada en la academia que John Maynard Keynes fue un modelo clásico liberal en la tradición de Locke, Jefferson y Tocqueville. Al igual que estos hombres, Keynes era un creyente sincero y ejemplar en la sociedad libre. Si se diferenciaba de los liberales clásicos en algunos aspectos
[ León Trotsky • Por Irving Howe • Viking Press, 1978 &bull 214 páginas. Esta reseña apareció originalmente en Libertarian Review , marzo de 1979.] León Trotsky siempre ha tenido un cierto atractivo para los intelectuales del que carecían los otros líderes bolcheviques. Las razones de ello son bastante claras. Fue escritor, crítico literario
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