Archive for Martin Morse Wooster
Martin Morse Wooster is an author and editor living in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Arthur Seldon: A Life for Liberty
Historians who look at think tanks usually write about their presidents or scholars. But Colin Robinson’s life of Arthur Seldon (1916–2005) is one of the few biographies that looks at a think-tank editor. Although Seldon was a prolific author, whose collected works fill seven volumes, his most important legacy was as cofounder and editorial director [...]
22Sep2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Globalization Works
Look at the foes of economic globalization and you’ll find a curious coalition. Some are left-wingers who oppose globalization because they oppose capitalism. But others are right-wing protectionists who don’t like foreign competition. The strength of the anti-globalist coalition has waxed and waned over time, but there is still a large number of people who [...]
13Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
In the endless debates over political correctness, champions of PC like to argue that their foes exaggerate the harm it causes. If you study the issue closely, you’ll find that political correctness is not as bad as you think it is—it’s much worse. Diane Ravitch found out this unwholesome truth in 1998. A prominent education [...]
7Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
There have been all sorts of books about libertarianism, from introductory treatises to memoirs and biographies of important figures in the field to histories such as Brian Doherty’s significant Radicals for Capitalism. But until now there has been no encyclopedia of libertarianism, no one-volume reference work that college students or intellectually adventurous adults could use [...]
11Jun2009 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Money Lawyers: The No-Holds-Barred World of Today’s Richest and Most Powerful Lawyers
By Joseph C. Goulden Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster
1Apr2007 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: American Foundations, by Mark Dowie
American Foundations by Mark Dowie MIT Press • 2001 • 298 pages • $29.95 Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster Nearly all large foundations follow thi: pattern in their history. They an founded by heroic entrepreneurs whc championed free enterprise and individua liberty. Within one generation after theii founder’s deaths, these foundations are ther captured by [...]
1Jan2003 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Government Can Do: Dealing With Poverty and Inequality by Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons
University of Chicago Press · 2000 · 309 pages · $29.00 Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster One of the major triumphs of liberty in the 1990s was in welfare reform. In the 1980s, scholars—notably Charles Murray—who contended that welfare demeaned those who accepted it and ensured lifetimes of dependence on the dole were condemned as [...]
1Oct2001 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | Continued-
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Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
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The Snow Plowers’ Petition
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Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
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Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
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