Books

In spite of minor flaws, Kimball reveals the monstrous Irrationality of those who shape academia today.

What Illiberal Education describes—though the author does not put it this way—is the official end of individualism on the American campus.

This is an intellectual autobiography of Mises, written near the half-way point of his productive years (1940).

This is a fresh, extremely thoughtful biography of the Founding Father whom Thomas Jefferson called “the greatest man in the world.”

“Contrary to conventional wisdom, the alternative to state regulation is not a regulatory void, but a range of voluntary arrangements.”

The heart of Professor Kirzner’s argument is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential in that object. And, hence, the profit earned by bringing that opportunity into existence justly belongs to the creator and discoverer.

Who was John D. Rockefeller? Chernow shows that he was, above all else, a man who held fast to certain core values throughout his life.

It is not really fair to ask if Ulysses holds similar meaning for the Platonists, because the book is practically impossible to read — the reason for its snob appeal. Ulysses recalls the saying, “We muddy the waters to make them appear deep.”

Ayn Rand held that the new intellectuals have to continue the Founders’ basic political line by reminding the world that man has a right to his own life, liberty, and happiness. Kramnic and Moore ultimately achieve this in Godless Constitution.

The revival of Austrian economics during the last 20 years is largely due to the original and numerous contributions of Israel M. Kirzner. Kirzner studied with Ludwig von Mises at New York University starting in the mid 1950s. He recounts in a recent issue of the...

How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade by Melvyn Krauss presents the basic principles for a policy of free trade and refutes many of the contemporary arguments for protectionism.

Sometimes creative understanding and interpretation of the present and the past can offer insightful suggestions about possible developments in the future.