If they grow tired of muddling through, Europe could decide on two alternative futures: what Smith calls “Fortress Europe” or “Return of the protectorate.”
Category: Book Reviews
The best books I read in 2019
A delayed book log from 2019, for posterity (or, more accurately, future me).
Review: ‘The Constitution of Liberty’ by F. A. Hayek
Those who support the system Hayek championed would do better to evangelize the arguments he actually makes, rather than defend the views his opponents ascribe to him.
Review: ‘My Father Left Me Ireland’ by Michael Brendan Dougherty
In the face of society’s ambivalence if not active hostility toward his mother’s life and death, one begins to doubt that every taboo shed constitutes progress.
Review: ‘What Went Wrong?’ by Bernard Lewis
His answer in this concise volume is interesting, but not as interesting as the lesson it holds for the United States today.
