Books


Review of “The Second Bill of Rights” Available in National Review

I just got the latest edition of National Review and was pleased to find in it my review of Cass Sunstein’s The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and…

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Review of “The Second Bill of Rights” Available in National Review

I just got the latest edition of National Review and was pleased to find in it my review of Cass Sunstein’s The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and…

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Review of “The Second Bill of Rights” Available in National Review

I just got the latest edition of National Review and was pleased to find in it my review of Cass Sunstein’s The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and…

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An Excellent Christmas, er, Non-Denominational End of Year Celebration Gift

This is the best and most comprehensive reader about the history, the philosophy, the economics, the jurisprudence, and the promise of liberty. (And I wrote the extensive bibliographical essay, with…

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Alexander — the Life, the Book, the Film

Next week a friend will be coming back from Baghdad and we’ve agreed to go and see Oliver Stone’s new movie about Alexander. I’m looking forward to the experience, despite…

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A Thoughtful Defector

The political journalist and commentator Robert George of the New York Post has written a thoughtful piece in The New Republic on “Why I Can’t Vote for Bush.” It’s worth…

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The Fall of the Republic

I finished up Tom Holland’s Rubicon: The Last Days of the Republic. It was a good read and helped to make more clear to me a number of the key…

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Cowboy Capitalism Hailed

I hosted a Book Forum today at the Cato Institute for Olaf Gersemann, author of Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality, with comments provided by Steven Pearlstein, business columnist for…

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Books

I’m nearly done with Tom Holland’s quite interesting and engaging book Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic. It’s well written and has helped me to understand better the…

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Books in My Briefcase

I’ve fallen way behind in my reading, but I did recently finish up a few books and start a few more. (I find that I usually have three to five…

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