May 1, 2013

Hooray, Hooray, the First of May

Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, communism, Friedrich Hayek, Gangs of New York, Karl Marx, radicalism, socialism, workers

Editor’s Note: Ken Masugi, a veteran of this site, will be guest blogging here for the month of May.

As Friedrich Hayek dedicated The Road to Serfdom (1944) to “the socialists of all parties,” we might use May …

Dec 13, 2012

A Marxist Historian Offers a Counter-History of Liberalism

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by Richard Reinsch / 2 Comments

Filed Under: Domenico Losurdo, John Locke, Karl Marx, Liberalism: A Counter-History

New in the Books section this week @Law and Liberty is a wonderful review by frequent contributor David Conway of Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History. Conway’s reviews are always worth considering because he quotes the author at length allowing …

Dec 9, 2012

A Story of Liberalism, Illiberally Told

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by David Conway / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Domenico Losurdo, John Calhoun, John Locke, Karl Marx, Liberalism: A Counter-History, Liberty Fund, Marxism, Tocqueville

The bibliographies of few books cite more Liberty Fund publications than does Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History from the Glorious Revolution to the First World War. It cites works published by Liberty Fund of no fewer than eleven authors and …

Aug 3, 2012

Daniel Kahneman’s Unbearable Irrationality

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by Theodore Dalrymple / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Daniel Kahneman, Irrational, Karl Marx, Rational, The German Ideology

The degree to which Man is, can or ought to be rational has long been a favorite question of philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, economists and barflies alike. No one minimally acquainted with the infinite variety of human self-destruction, without at least …