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2005
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Harold D. Lasswell was one of the most well known figures of American political science in the 20th century. The author of numerous books and articles, Lasswell began his career at the University of Chicago in the 1920s, where he studied sociology, psychology, philosophy, and economics, in addition to political science...the reissue of The Future of Political Science by Transaction Publishers is a reminder why Lasswell exercised such influence and why his work has receded from view.
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2005
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"Philosophers used to tell the story that modern philosophy (i.e., philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) developed primarily as a set of answers to the fundamental questions, 'how is it that I know anything?' and 'what sorts of things am I justified in believing?' A modern philosopher’s answer to the first fundamental question constrained his answer to the second one."
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2005
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Whether they agree with Barnett or not, scholars with integrity cannot afford to ignore such a controversial, intelligent, and well-researched book. It is rare that a work comes along that casts doubt over almost everything we thought law school had taught us about the Constitution. "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty" is that work.
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2005
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Stemming from a 2003 profile in the New York Times Magazine, Freakonomics, coauthored with journalist Stephen J. Dubner, is a piece of popularized economic literature that translates Levitt’s academic work into a Malcolm Gladwell style book of pop social science research. Covering everything from sumo wrestling to bagel selling, Freakonomics employs basic economic principles to illuminate a host of interesting and eclectic facts about human nature, in the process, introducing us to one of the hottest minds in economics today.
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2005
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"Jim Powell’s recent return to polemical history, Wilson’s War, pledges to demonstrate 'how Woodrow Wilson’s great blunder led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II.' ... Wilson’s War can be read as a bold new thesis, a revisiting of a more conventional thesis, or, arguably, as a two pronged approach – permitting bold-thesis polemics backed by conventional-thesis historical analysis."
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2005
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The Agony of an American Wilderness serves as an invaluable case study of the logging debates in the United States. After reading it one is left with an understanding of the issues and a better appreciation for the views of interested parties.
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2004
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In their latest offering, A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professors Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen abandon the “prissy” pretenses of pure ideological objectivity and, rejecting the liberal historical revisionism of recent decades, openly seek to affirm the moral character of the United States and restore her place as a “city on a hill.”
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2004
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“Talking to strangers is a way of claiming one’s political majority and, with it, a presidential ease and sense of freedom...”
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2004
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In The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy, Jack Hollander hopes to teach environmentalists that the key to protecting Planet Earth both locally and globally lies in understanding that poverty guides the poor.
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2004
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In "Norms in a Wired World," Steven A. Hetcher tries to put forth a new conception of norms and apply it to tort law, as well as the emerging field of online privacy. Hetcher succeeds in conveying a capable new description for the concept of norms, but that may be all he does.
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