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As we have seen, Roosevelt approached ...
Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals
by Ernest Gellner (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994); 225 pages; $25.
The Western world is unique. It is the only civilization that has successfully combined liberty, order, and prosperity. We who live in it ...
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The Yalta meeting was the culmination ...
Dead Right
by David Frum (New York: A New Republic Book/Basic Books, 1994); 230 pages; $23.00.
The congressional Republicans are approaching the end of their first one hundred days, during which they promised to implement much of the legislation in their ...
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On the evening of February 8, ...
The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology
by Doug Bandow (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1994); 338 pages; $19.95.
In his recent book, The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology, Doug Bandow analyzes the destructive effect of envy ...
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In the late afternoon of February ...
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 ...