Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank (Princeton University Press, 2016; 208 pages)
In 2002, I reviewed an atrocious book for this publication — The Myth of Ownership, by Liam ...
Who Needs the Fed? by John Tamny (Encounter Books, 2016); 224 pages.
I really don’t like to start a review with a quibble, but in this instance, I must. My quibble is with the title of ...
The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need by Darcy Olsen (HarperCollins, 2015); 311 pages.
The highly acclaimed 2013 movie Dallas Buyers Club told the story of Ron ...
The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz (Simon & Schuster, 2015); 417 pages.
Since the beginning of the so-called Progressive Era, advocates of big government have been on the offensive. They promised Americans more ...
Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court by Damon Root (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 274 pages.
Every case that comes before the U.S. Supreme Court has its unique factual setting and contentious legal issues, but ...
Uncle Sam Can’t Count: A History of Failed Government Investments from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy by Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom (Broadside Books, 2014), 239 pages.
The day after the 2010 mid-term elections, the federal ...
Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good
by Tom W. Bell (Mercatus Center 2014), 238 pages.
Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom
by Adam Thierer (Mercatus Center 2014), 1089 pages.
These books cover two ...
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley (Encounter Books 2014), 407 pages.
When he was asked, following the abolition of slavery, what the country should do with the Negro, Frederick ...
We libertarians are often accused of “worshiping” the Constitution, but that charge is false. Although we don’t care one bit for the “living Constitution” theory that leads only to the expansion of state power, it does not follow that ...
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change by Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez (Stanford Economics and Finance 2013), 209 pages.
Have you ever wondered why democracies so often generate public policies that ...
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