A Time for War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor
by Robert Smith Thompson (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991); 449 pages; $24.95.
As the 1940 presidential campaign was approaching its conclusion, President Franklin Roosevelt — running for ...
In February 1992, the Center for Constructive Alternatives of Hillsdale College in Michigan organized a five-day conference on "Thought Police on Campus: Is Academic Freedom in Danger?" Among the speakers invited to participate as opponents of political correctness in ...
The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information by Jean-Francois Revel (New York: Random House, 1991); 408 pages; $25.
The famous English economist Alfred Marshall is reported to have once remarked that "students of social science must fear popular approval; evil is with them when all men speak well of them. If there is any set of opinions ...
Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990
by Paul Hollander (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); 515 pages; $35.
In 1981, Professor Paul Hollander published Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to ...
Constitutional Economics
by James M. Buchanan (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1991); 137 pages; $29.95
What are the reasons behind the growth of government in the 20th century? And why has it been so ...
Election years are meant to be momentous events in the life of a nation. The electorate are given the opportunity to determine the political course of the country. And every four years, the electoral process includes the election of ...
Constitutional Economics
by James M. Buchanan (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1991); 137 pages; $29.95
What are the reasons behind the growth of government in the 20th century? And why has it been so difficult to diminish the size of government even ...
For forty-five years, Europe enjoyed peace. But it was in the form of an "armed truce" called the Cold War. On the one side of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union maintained its through the threat — and occasional ...
The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 3: The Trend of Economic Thinking
by W.W. Bartley and Stephen Kresge (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991); 338 pages; $45.95.
I remember when I first read Friedrich A. Hayek's The ...