Litany of Errors
Bjorn Lomborg did not believe economist Julian Simon’s well-known claim, and set out to prove that it was simple American right-wing propaganda. No one could …
Category: Reviews
Go Forth and Multiply
Patrick Buchanan argues that the drought of births in the West is a deep cultural change, persistent enough to foretell an implosion of white populations. …
An Unfashionable Mind
Israel Kirzner is well-qualified to write about Ludwig von Mises. He studied under him at New York University, earned his Ph.D. under him in 1957, …
Principled Critic
As a Fortune magazine writer turned Trotskyite, critic of World War II turned Cold War anti-communist, and fellow traveler with the New Left, Dwight Macdonald …
How the West Won
One of my avocations is collecting pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle consists of figuring out why the West changed so that during the …
A Man to Be Destroyed
Clarence Thomas is the finest defender of liberty the Supreme Court has seen since the New Deal, but until now the only serious book about …
Right Man, Right Time
The Age of Reagan is what Edmund Morris’ Dutch, encumbered by fictional conceits, should have been. It has a sense of drama and climax befitting …
Booknotes – January 2002
A Fool and His Tax Dollars by T. E. Ruppenthal The Sixteen-Trillion Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal …
Globalization, Little Buddy!
Did any book ever have a better title? And the motive behind the book is almost as good ~ to do some justice, for a …
Bystanders to Success
Since Sept. 11, a lot of people have attempted to explain “why they hate us.” Yet the vast majority of people in the world don’t …