Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
by Scott Shane (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994); 324 pages; $25.00.
Ten years ago, on March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist ...
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Jacob Hornberger and I first met in Dallas, Texas, in 1984. I had recently taken a position as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Dallas. He was ...
Race and Culture: A World View
by Thomas Sowell (New York: Basic Books, 1994); 331 pages; $25.00.
Through most of history, since before the time of Aristotle, slavery has been considered a natural institution in ...
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In spite of the demise of totalitarian collectivism, the world is still enveloped by the ideology of socialism. When Ludwig von ...
Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons
by Pu Ning (New York: Grove Press, 1994) 228 pages; $21.
The essential details of the Soviet house of horror are now fairly well known. The story of the Soviet ...
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With the approaching end of 1994, The Future of Freedom Foundation is celebrating its fifth anniversary. For a half-decade, Jacob Hornberger and I, and the other authors who have contributed ...
Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberties
by James Bovard (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994); 408 pages; $24.95.
Several years ago, Chicago School economist George Stigler argued:
Even with the vast expansion of public controls over earning and spending in ...
Ours is a time without a consistent ideological or philosophical direction. The utopian dreams that dominated more than three-quarters of our century have lost their attractiveness for most people, after the attempt to ...
Death by Government
by R. J. Rummel (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994) 496 pages, $49.95.
In 1900, when the 20th century was about to begin, practically all political commentators, social analysts, and newspaper editorialists were sure that the new century ...
For the advocate of classical or market liberalism, the depoliticization of economic life is considered the primary avenue for the diminishment of social and cultural tensions in society. The removal of the state ...