More Collectivist and Statist Books
I’ve been reading through a small stack of recent collectivist and statist books. (I won’t mention them by name until I’ve published my reviews or given my comments on them.)…
Books
The French Can Be So Hateful….
The hateful mistreatment of the purely innocent children of German soldiers in France is documented in a new book, Enfants maudits, by Jean-Paul Picaper and Ludwig Norz. How nasty and…
A Champion of the Poor and the Oppressed
I’m off on Thursday to San Francisco to see an old friend get a well deserved prize. Hernando de Soto will receive the second Biennial Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing…
A Feast for the Mind
I am very pleased to have started a new book by the great legal scholar Harold Berman. It’s the second volume of a sweeping and truly brilliant history of western…
Historical Background to the Gay Marriage Debate
Given the astonishing and sweeping historical claims made in the debate over gay marriage, it’s worth looking at what serious historical investigators have to say about homosexuality and romance. (Historical…
Why Do the Greeks Matter?
I’ve finished Thomas Cahill’s enjoyable little book Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter. It’s not scholarly; it’s not original; it’s got its share of avoidable errors and the…
Iraqi Prospects
New York Times writer John Tierney has a hopeful essay in today’s New York Times magazine on the prospects of a free and prosperous society for Iraqis. (It requires registration,…
Steven Pinker: Scientist
I heard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker speak this evening at the American Enterprise Institute on the topic of his latest book, The Blank Slate. His delivery is even better than…
Back to D.C., and Ever More Books to Read
I’m back in the federal district and trying to get back to work on a variety of projects. (Cato University went well, or so the participants told me.) In the…
Every Apologist for Communist Tyranny Should Read This Book…..and So Should Every Friend of Freedom
Professor G. A. Cohen of Oxford University, whose acquaintance it was my distasteful experience to make while in Oxford, wrote in his book Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality (Cambridge: Cambridge University…