Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader / Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America

Two recent books criticize racial discrimination from a classical-liberal perspective. The first, Race & Liberty in America, is an anthology edited by Jonathan Bean, a professor of history at Southern Illinois University. It includes dozens of selections, from 1776 to today, arguing eloquently for colorblind equality before the law and against slavery, Jim Crow, and [...]

Book Reviews – December 2006

• The Ethics of the Market
  by John Meadowcroft Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  
• Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists _in the New Deal Era
  by Gary Dean Best Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr
  
• Philosophers of Capitalism: _Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
  by Edward W. Younkins Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
  
• Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in _Black America
  by John McWhorter Reviewed by George C. Leef
  

The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education by Jeffrey R. Henig, Richard C. Hula, Marion Orr, and Desiree S. Pedescleaux

Princeton University Press • 1999 • 292 pages • $35.00 Race, contend the authors of The Color of School Reform, is pivotal in efforts to reform public education in urban communities. Important too is government’s ability to facilitate development of civic capacity—“the capacity to collectively set goals and effectively pursue them”—which is the heart and [...]