The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite, 1945–1963
by Michael Swanson (CreateSpace 2013), 430 pages.
In the October 1958 issue of The New Yorker, near the high-water mark of McCarthyism, the novelist ...
National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon (Oxford University Press 2014), 272 pages.
Americans have been taken in by an illusion, complacently believing that they live in a constitutional republic in which the rule of law ...
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter by Ilya Somin (Stanford University Press 2013), 280 pages.
In Democracy and Political Ignorance, law professor Ilya Somin looks down into the apparently fathomless depth of voter ignorance and concludes ...
The Classical Liberal Constitution by Richard A. Epstein (Harvard University Press 2014), 701 pages.
In Book II of his Two Treatises of Government, John Locke says “that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in ...
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory by Jesse Walker (Harper 2013), 448 pages.
What is the substance of American paranoia? From where does it emanate, and why is its study important? These are some of the questions ...
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk (Doubleday 2012), 272 pages.
In the idealist, the system-building visionary, there is a certain natural attractiveness, a gravitational pull centered on the strength of his convictions. ...
American Coup: How a Terrified Government Is Destroying the Constitution by William M. Arkin (Little, Brown and Company 2013), 368 pages.
Among the philosophy of liberty’s core ideas is the well-known precept that a free society must be one ...
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror by Anthony Gregory (Independent Institute/Cambridge University Press 2013), 390 pages.
Among libertarians generally, there is a somewhat dependable tendency to hark back to ...
As the subject of an ongoing trial in federal court, Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., the controversial police policy known as “stop and frisk” is receiving more attention than perhaps at any other moment ...
That the consumption of certain drugs ought to be proscribed by law is probably taken for granted by most people. The presumption in favor of banning some drugs has become so strong, so embedded in the mainstream of popular ...
