It is an exceedingly rare thing that I eagerly await the release of a book. However, Patrick Newman’s second installment in his series on the history of cronyism in the United States, just published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is precisely that. Indeed, ever...
Famed for his contributions to the hard sciences—most notably his theory of heliocentricity—the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was also an acute analyst of monetary policy. To that end, Ralph Benko has done us all a great service with this new...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, is a clarion call for Silicon Valley to abandon its consumer trinkets and rush headlong into the arms of the military-industrial complex. According to Karp, America's future depends on wielding hard power...
In 2008, a book appeared called Deleting the State: An Argument About Government. It was a trim volume, barely a hundred pages of actual text, but it hit me with the force of a hundred pounds from the very first page. As an undergraduate political science student, I...
William J. Watkins Jr.’s The Independent Guide to the Constitution: Original Intentions, Modern Inventions is an admirably clear-eyed and disciplined examination of a document that has, over the course of two centuries, been transformed from a charter of limited and...
David T. Beito’s FDR: A New Political Life offers a bracing, deeply researched, and welcome reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one that decisively breaks with the hagiographic tradition that has dominated twentieth century American historiography. The book’s...
Among the torrent of publications continually inundating the policy community and reading public, few are worth reading—between banality and bad ideas, most would have been better left unwritten. A notable recent exception to this general rule, however, is Dr. Ivan...
On April 15, 2025, the Australian documentary show titled Border Security featured Pete, an American man traveling to Australia to visit his girlfriend, Anna, of ten years. He caught the attention of the airport security since he was traveling alone, and only had six...
