The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
by Stefan Kühl (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 166 pages; $22.00.
In his 1910 textbook, Elementary Principles of Economics, world-renowned Yale Professor Irving Fisher devoted part ...
Since in our era of health Nazism, it is an ideological requirement to state whether one is "politically correct" on various issues, let me be up-front. I am a smoker — both cigarettes and a pipe ...
Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West
by Stephen Koch (New York: Free Press, 1994) 419 pages; $24.95.
In the first half of the 20th century, one ...
In the 19th century, many classical liberals believed that the ideas of "national identity" and "nationalism" were false scents that were likely to lead the world away from liberty and towards a continuation of political tyranny and international conflict. ...
Post-Communist Societies in Transition: A Social Market Perspective
by John Gray (London: Social Market Foundation, 1994) 45 pages; £8.00.
In 1984, Oxford University philosopher John Gray published a book entitled Hayek on Liberty . After it appeared in a ...
For three years, civil war has caused massive death and destruction in the former Yugoslavia. Almost every day, the television evening news has broadcast pictures of devastating artillery bombardments, ruined towns and villages, and multitudes of killed and wounded ...
Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics
by David G. Green (London: Institute for Economic Affairs, 1993); 166 pages; £7.95.
When President Clinton delivered his address to a joint session of Congress to ...
The cover of the December 1993 issue of The Atlantic Monthly had a caricature of Adam Smith running away while being chased by a rain of rotten apples, stones and copies of a book with the name Friedrich ...
Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement
by Justin Raimondo (Burlingame, CA: Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993); 287 pages.
In the first issue of the conservative quarterly Modern Age — Summer 1957 — there was ...
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In his recent book The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe (1993), historian Gale Stokes suggests, "Students who graduate from college after the turn ...