Independent Review articles from January 2000

Independent Review archives from January 2000

Just War? Moral Soldiers?
January 1, 2000... Moral reasoning within the just war tradition is far more like a skilled musical conductor interpreting a symphonic score than it is like an engineer reading a blueprint. The conductor has notes and other instructions on his score. But the...

The Immigration Problem: Then and Now.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... The historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., once remarked, "Let us take care to avoid the fallacy of self-pity that leads every generation to suppose that it is peculiarly persecuted by history" (Schlesinger 1983, 228). He could have been speaking...

Ronald Reagan and the Rise of Large Deficits.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... What Really Happened in 1981 In the controversy over Ronald Reagan's legacy, the events of 1981 loom large. Critics contend that the large deficits of the 1980s were Reagan's fault, the product of an irresponsible plan to cut taxes and...

The Liberty Debate on Participation in Politics.
January 1, 2000... To appreciate the debate that erupted in Benjamin R. Tucker's individualist-anarchist periodical Liberty (Boston 1881-92, New York 1892-1908) over the propriety of electoral politics, it is necessary to understand the prevailing view of the...

U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc.
January 1, 2000... When the communist Eastern bloc collapsed in 1989 and the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist in 1991, it seemed that the West (particularly the united States) finally had what it had always wanted--the opportunity to introduce quick,...

Does Hayek Speak to Asia?(economic philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek)
January 1, 2000... There is some justification at least in the taunt that many of the pretending defenders of "free enterprise" are in fact defenders of privileges and advocates of government activity in their favor rather than opponents of all privilege. ...

Autocratic Ghosts and Chinese Hunger.(Chinese dictator Mao Zedong)(Review)
January 1, 2000... Continuing revelations about Joseph Stalin's reign have led many historians to rank him the greatest mass murderer of our century and possibly of all time. But a growing body of evidence indicates that they are probably mistaken: Mao Zedong,...

The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America Richard J. Ellis Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. $34.95. Professor Richard J. Ellis has a problem. A modern liberal, he seemingly longs for the good old days...

Problems of Market Liberalism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Problems of Market Liberalism Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 314. $24.95 paper. Problems of Market Liberalism first appeared as the summer...

In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign against Competition, 1918-1938.(Review)
January 1, 2000... In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign against Competition, 1918-1938 By Butler D. Shaffer Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1997. Pp. 284. $42.50. Butler Shaffer's scholarly interpretation of the political attitudes and...

The Political Economy of the New Deal.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Political Economy of the New Deal By Jim F. Couch and William F. Shughart II Cheltenham, Eng., and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar for the Locke Institute, 1998. Pp. xvi, 247. $85 cloth. The Great Depression remains one of the...

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 170. $49.95. The...

The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century Edited by Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 474. $60.00. The editors...

The Drama of Modern Western Identity.
January 1, 2000... Ask scholars and intellectuals, and they will tell you that Americans and citizens of other countries normally thought of as part of the West live in an era of posts: post-cold war, postmodern, postindustrial, post-Christian, post-ideological,...

Regulatory Harmonization: A Sweet-Sounding, Dangerous Development.
January 1, 2000... Contemporary social and economic affairs take place within a bewildering complex of regulatory restrictions and requirements. Already profuse beyond comprehension, the labyrinth grows ever more extensive. In the United States, at the federal...