Archive for Gregory P. Pavlik
America First! Its History, Culture, and Politics
Mr. Pavlik is associate editor of The Freeman and editor of Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn, published by FEE. Bill Kauffman’s new book is a mix of biographical essays, historical commentary, and contemporary criticism. America First! sets out to describe a way of looking at the culture and politics of the United [...]
1Apr1996 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow
Random House • 1995 • 327 pages • $24.00 Peter Brimelow, a journalist and senior editor at Forbes and National Review, has written a stimulating and illuminating discussion of the morass that passes for U.S. immigration policy. Brimelow argues, correctly, that current immigration regulations are part of a wider trend that seeks to change the [...]
1Dec1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Economic Thought Before Adam SmithAn Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume 1 by Murray N. Rothbard
Edward Elgar • 1995 • 556 pages • $99.95 Libertarian theory did not emerge from a vacuum. Yet, often it seems that the deepest antecedents that movement libertarians would bequeath to us lie in the Enlightenment. Indeed, some would not proceed backward past Ayn Rand. The truth is, libertarian thought has an ancestry extending down [...]
1Oct1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Ethics of War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki After 50 Years
Mr. Pavlik is director of The Freeman Op-Ed Program at The Foundation for Economic Education. He is editor of Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn, to be published by FEE next month. The first use of an atomic bomb in warfare took place on August 6, 1945. The weapon was dropped on the [...]
1Sep1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 4 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition by M. Stanton Evans
Regnery Publishing • 1994 • 352 pages • $24.00 The sources of the freedoms and form of government that Americans once enjoyed are often a subject of dispute. One side claims that the American republic was the product of the Enlightenment and the spirit of the times. The other holds that the break from Britain [...]
1Aug1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Beyond Politics by William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons
The Independent Institute/Westview Press • 1994 • 234 pages • $17.95 paperback, $49.50 cloth Within the last 30 or so years some advocates of limited government have begun promoting public choice economics, This small but increasingly influential school of thought applies assumptions of neo-classical economics about human behavior to public employees, elected or not. Public [...]
1Jul1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908) edited by Frank H. Brooks
Transaction Books • 1994 • 310 pages • $39.95 Anarchism is often associated with the extremes of either capitalist apologetics or communism, particularly by those without even passing familiarity with the subject. Yet, the individualist anarchists defied simplistic categorization from the start. The vast majority of the individualist anarchists did consider themselves to occupy a [...]
1Apr1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | Continued-
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