Archive for Lawrence Person
Book Review: The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet
William Morrow & Co. • 1993 • 256 pages • $20.00 In 1984, Charles Murray’s Losing Ground brought the topic of welfare reform to the forefront of political consciousness. With impeccable research and meticulous logic, Murray marshaled a vast array of statistics to support his assertion that the huge expansion of government welfare programs resulting [...]
1Nov1994 | Lawrence Person | 0 comments | ContinuedIn Praise of Billboards
Mr. Person is former editor of Citizens Agenda. His work has appeared in National Review, Reason, and other magazines. I recently took a car trip from central Texas to northern Virginia. Though my journey was of an entirely practical nature (two straight days of driving, with no time for sightseeing), it gave me a new [...]
1Sep1993 | Lawrence Person | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Unbounding The Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution by K. Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson with Gayle Pergamit
William Morrow & Co., 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 • 304 pages • $23.00 With the publication of Engines of Creation in 1986, K. Eric Drexler first introduced the concept of nanotech nology to the general public. Using microscopic machines that would construct things at the molecular level one atom at [...]
1Nov1992 | Lawrence Person | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It by James Q. Wilson
Basic Books, 10 E. 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1990 433 pages • $24.95 cloth All bureaucracies are not created equal. If nothing else, James Q. Wilson’s massive book teaches that the ways of constructing and running a bureaucracy are almost as numerous as bureaucrats themselves. To that end, Wilson goes into a [...]
1Sep1991 | Lawrence Person | 18 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachevs Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets by Judy Shelton
The Free Press, Front and Brown Streets, Riverside, NJ 08375 • 1989 • 246 pages • $22.50 cloth For many years, it was said that capitalists would sell Communists the ropes for their own hanging. Now, however, it has become clear that the Soviets don’t even have enough money to buy the rope. Still, despite [...]
1Sep1990 | Lawrence Person | 1 comment | Continued-
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