Reviews
History, Reviews
Review: First into Nagasaki, by George Weller
John David Lewis August 20, 2008
John David Lewis reviews First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War, by George Weller.
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Tyranny of the Market, by Joel Waldfogel
Eric Daniels August 20, 2008
Eric Daniels reviews The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can't Always Get What You Want, by Joel Waldfogel.
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: The Terrorist Watch, by Ronald Kessler
Joe Kroeger August 20, 2008
Joe Kroeger reviews The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, by Ronald Kessler.
Economics, Reviews
Review: Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Eric Daniels August 20, 2008
Eric Daniels reviews Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Economics, Reviews
Review: Mugged by Reality, by John Agresto
Elan Journo August 20, 2008
Elan Journo reviews Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions, by John Agresto
Philosophy, Reviews
Review: Reforming Philosophy, by Laura J. Snyder
John P. McCaskey May 20, 2008
John P. McCaskey reviews Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society, by Laura J. Snyder.
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: Sun-tzu: Art of War, translated by Ralph D. Sawyer
John David Lewis May 20, 2008
John David Lewis reviews Sun-tzu: Art of War, translated with an introduction and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer.
Politics & Rights, Reviews
Review: The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, by Steven M. Teles
Larry Salzman May 20, 2008
Larry Salzman reviews The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law, by Steven M. Teles.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Reviews
Egoism Explained: A Review of Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics
Diana Hsieh February 20, 2007
Reviews Tara Smith’s latest book, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist, and finds it to be a welcome addition to the existing literature on the Objectivist ethics—and a sizable challenge for critics of egoism.
Economics, Politics & Rights, Reviews
Property and Principle: A Review Essay on Bernard H. Siegan’s Economic Liberties and the Constitution
Larry Salzman November 20, 2006
Analyzes Bernard H. Siegan’s Economic Liberties and the Constitution, showing the first edition of the book (not the second edition) to be a valuable source for those seeking to understand how legal protections for property rights in America were gradually lost. Salzman also shows that, although Economic Liberties has certain virtues and is one of the best scholarly books on the subject, it fails to provide a proper philosophical grounding of property rights, and thus cannot stand on its own in defense thereof.