Independent Review articles from January 2008

Independent Review archives from January 2008

The last colonialist: Israel in the occupied territories since 1967.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... With almost prophetic accuracy, Naguib Azoury, a Maronitc Ottoman bureaucrat turned Arab patriot, wrote in 1905: "Two important phenomena, of the same nature but opposed... are emerging at this moment in Asiatic Turkey. They are the awakening...

Resource exhaustibility: a myth refuted by entrepreneurial capital maintenance.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... The concept of myth is defined as "an unproved collective belief that is accepted uncritically" (Random House Dictionary 1969, 946). One such myth is the idea that extractive resources are exhaustible in an economic sense. In this article, I...

From welfare state to police state.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... In the fall of 2006, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported that out-of-wedlock births had reached a record high (Hamilton, Martin, and Ventura 2006). At about the same time, new Census Bureau figures, as interpreted by the...

The evolution of eminent domain: a remedy for market failure or an effort to limit government power and government failure?(Essay)
January 1, 2008... As Lopez and Totah note, "The U. S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in the property-rights case Kelo v. City of New London ignited more controversy than any issue decided during the court's 2004-2005 term" (2007, 397). Virtually contemporaneously...

In defense of Herbert Spencer.(CONTROVERSY)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... In 1978, Liberty Fund published nineteenth-century intellectual giant Herbert Spencer's Principles of Ethics in two volumes, with an introduction by Tibor R. Machan. Spencer's magnificent tome is full of wisdom and will be read with profit for...

Imperialism and the logic of war making.(REFLECTIONS)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Commentaries on war stretching back more than two millennia to the Peloponnesian War have enshrouded the fundamental causes of war in an almost impenetrable fog of myths, fallacies, and outright lies. In most studies, war is generally portrayed...

The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire By Harold James Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 166. $24.95. The United States is the most powerful state in the world...

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy By Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills New York: Basic Books, 2005. Pp. 207. $26.00 cloth, $15.95 paperback. Peter W. Huber and Mark P....

Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance By Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 471. $50.00 cloth. World migration since the Industrial Revolution is...

Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism By James M. Buchanan Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2005. Pp vii, 111. $75.00 cloth. In this small volume, James Buchanan lays out his understanding of...