A Great Read
I’m about 1/3 of the way through Brian Doherty’s excellent Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. I had read a few chapters in manuscript…
Books
A New Book
I read a number of the early chapters and provided feedback and information — and now I get to read the book. Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History…
Understand the Wealth of Nations! Really!
Buy this Book It’s been many years since I read the whole An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. It is full — full —…
McGovern and Polk’s Disappointing Analysis and Plan
On my long flight, I read a short book, Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now, by George McGovern and William R. Polk. It had been enthusiastically recommended…
The Knight in the Panther’s Skin
I’m pleased to have been introduced on this trip to the great Georgian epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, which I bought yesterday at a…
Andrew Sullivan at His Best
I’ve heard Andrew Sullivan give roughly the same talk — on the rise of “Christianism,” on the related growth of a politics without doubt, and on the bankruptcy of modern…
More Posturing
Christopher Buckley’s review of The Definitive Book of Body Language in the New York Times (requires registration) is outstandingly clever. (Body language is the new craze; President Bush said today…
A Couple of New Books
Among my responsibilities at the Cato Institute, I read most of our new books (ideally, before publication, since it never hurts to have more eyes catching errors, glitches, and infelicities…
Economic Freedom of the World Study Released
The Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report was released today (well, it’s 12:20 am, so technically yesterday). It’s well worth a careful read. The charts relating economic freedom…
Cowboy Capitalism in Russian
Thanks to the good offices of the IRISEN project in Russia (on whose editorial board I serve), Olaf Gersemann’s outstanding book Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality has appeared in…