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This impressive book is not well served by its title. It is not clear what the author means by “Stalin’s curse?” Is it his personality, or his politics? Is it his attempts to promote communism, or the unintended consequences …
The Popular Legitimacy of Judicial Elections
Almost ninety percent of state judges must seek the support of voters either to win a seat on the bench or to retain that seat. During recent decades, state judicial elections have become more fiercely contested—“nastier, noisier, and costlier” in …
David Stockman’s Informed Anger
David Stockman is probably most well-known for his service as the first Director of the Office and Management and Budget under President Reagan. For those following politics at the time, the most vivid memory was likely when Reagan reportedly took …
The Court that John Marshall Inherited
The history of the Supreme Court before the appointment of John Marshall in 1801 has long received scant attention from scholars. The unspoken assumption was that little of importance occurred during the Court’s first decade and that Marshall established the …
The Next Financial Crisis: What Will the Market ‘Expect’?
In signing the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act President Obama claimed to much applause, “And finally, because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes. (Applause.) There will …
Liberated by Conscience
Who was Thomas More? What might seem a simple question draws several conflicting answers. To many, More was the great humanist author of Utopia, a work that has remained an essential text in the study of Western literature and …
Present at the Creation: The Free Market Counterrevolution
Mark Blaug’s Economic Theory in Retrospect argues that the Keynesian revolution in economics after the publication of The General Theory was a unique event in economic history because of its rapid and almost complete conversion of the economics profession to …
China and America: Will It be a Strategic Relationship?
Dragons and pandas are oft-used metaphors when the West, including the United States, discusses China and its implications on national and international politics. I have lamented about the overuse of dragons in reference to China in the past,[1] though I …
The Dollars and Sense of Intellectual Property
Intellectual property rights are in the limelight today. The legal and policy disputes over patented innovation, such as the “smart phone wars,” are front page news and are debated endlessly on the Internet. Copyright law is a topic …
Reclaiming Britain’s Commodity of Liberty
While more than enough is happening domestically to keep Americans fully occupied, it will not have escaped the attention of many of them that the political tectonic plates of Europe are currently moving in ways contrary to the direction in …