A Review of The Road to Freedom
One wonders how much Joseph Stiglitz has actually read of Hayek and Friedman.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of Who Owns This Sentence?
The vast expansion of copyright protections has transferred these rights to giant corporations, which use them to extract rent from global consumers.
A Review of Memory and Authority
A Law & Liberty symposium on Jack M. Balkin's Memory and Authority.
A Review of Memory and Authority
Public meaning originalists, living originalists, and living constitutionalists all tend to share an unequivocal acceptance of judicial supremacy.
Past Reviews
A Review of Memory and Authority
The magician who can traditionalize Obergefell can, the need arising, traditionalize anything.
A Review of Memory and Authority
Balkin wants judges, guided by scholars like him, to feel free to interpret the Constitution on the basis of their views of “political tradition."
A Review of Harmonizing Sentiments
Ideas of self-government helped to hold the fractious founding generation together. Sadly, we don't speak that language anymore.
A Review of Who Is Big Brother?
D. J. Taylor judiciously steers a course between hagiography and debunking.
A Review of The Duty to Secure
Clausewitz's understanding of war is now out of fashion. Its loss comes with costs, however.
A Review of Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Some unfinished works are better left unfinished.
A Review of The Neptune Factor
Alfred Thayer Mahan viewed sea power as a tool of political economy, rather than merely of military power.
A Review of Biblical Judgments
What does the Bible tell us about the problems and trials of modern law?
A Review of Markets with Chinese Characteristics
Missing in the conversations about China’s future is the place of economic liberalism in modern Chinese thought before 1978.
A Review of The Anxious Generation
Safetyism and screens have created a toxic cocktail for America’s youth.
A Review of Machiavelli on War
War makes nations rise and fall. Wise leaders prepare for it.
A Review of I Will Show You How It Was
Living in a free society shapes people in ways that tyrants like Vladimir Putin can hardly understand.
A Review of Hussar Cut
Hussar Cut presents the case for the Hungarian strategy and the philosophy behind it.
A Review of Here In Avalon
Tara Burton’s latest novel takes readers to a darkly magical place where the boundaries between worlds blur.