The Most Important Lesson in Economics
Last week I led the new Cato intern class in a discussion of Frederic Bastiat’s brilliant essay “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” a work whose insights inform…
Books
Civic Virtue and Liberty
My thoughts on the relationship between liberalism, republicanism, and virtue are now captured for the ages in my review in the most recent Cato Journal (Volume 24, No. 3, Fall…
Biographies of Alexander the Great
I’m working through some of the recent biographies of Alexander the Great and comparing them to the classical texts and should have a little report soon. It’s been quite enjoyable…
Mitchell’s Gilgamesh the Best Rendition
I’ve read and compared the new rendition of The Epic of Gilgamesh prepared by Stephen Mitchell with the others available in English and in my opinion it’s the best. It’s…
Mitchell’s Gilgamesh the Best Rendition
I’ve read and compared the new rendition of The Epic of Gilgamesh prepared by Stephen Mitchell with the others available in English and in my opinion it’s the best. It’s…
Mitchell’s Gilgamesh the Best Rendition
I’ve read and compared the new rendition of The Epic of Gilgamesh prepared by Stephen Mitchell with the others available in English and in my opinion it’s the best. It’s…
Mitchell’s Gilgamesh the Best Rendition
I’ve read and compared the new rendition of The Epic of Gilgamesh prepared by Stephen Mitchell with the others available in English and in my opinion it’s the best. It’s…
Otsuka Responds (Very Inadquately) to a Comment
Michael Otsuka, author of Libertarianism Without Inequality, responded to a comment by my friend Paul Bogdanor in which Paul pointed out that Otsuka resorts to ad hominem attacks on libertarians…
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Thanks to the beneficence of my friend Alan Zuschlag, I now own two more versions in English of The Epic of Gilgamesh. It’s a great story about the arrogance of…
Comments on Book Reviews Concerning “Social Justice”
Anyone who’d like to post problems or questions about my reviews this month in National Review (Cass Sunstein’s The Second Bill of Rights) or Reason (Michael Otsuka’s Libertarianism Without Inequality),…