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Volume 5, Number 3 Inside HSR: - Do people have rights? If so, why? Philosopher David Gordon looks at the central issues, and reviews the literature on rights.
- Why do revolutions convulse some states and not others? And why have some revolutions resulted in liberty, others in crushing tyranny? Sociologist Jack Goldstone considers recent developments in the study of revolution.
- Are African societies doomed to perpetual poverty? Is the orthodox model of economic development flawed? Economist George B. N. Ayittey looks at the "traditional" sectors of African societies and suggests a different route for economic and social development.
- How "modem" were the American Jeffersonian Republicans? Were they antimodern defenders of
an agrarian polity, or were they principally defenders of free markets? Historian David Mayer reviews an important addition to a central debate in political history.
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