Robert M. Whaples writes in The Independent Review (Spring 2019): What is “social justice”? The Independent Review will tackle this topic in a symposium in its Summer 2019 issue. These authors largely advance the idea that social justice will flourish in a culture where individuals behave civilly ...Read More...

Jack Mason writes at Mason's Bookshelf on Midwest Book Review: Synopsis: David P. Gontar has served as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southern University from 1975 to 1982. Thereafter he was engaged in the practice of law in New Orleans, Louisiana and southern California. ...Read More...

Podcast here. An interview with former NYU professor Michael Rectenwald. He is an author of several books including, "Springtime For Snowflakes:Social Justice And It's Postmodern Parentage". We discuss his wild journey from an avowed Marxist to a free market libertarian and the subsequent fallout ...Read More...

The “Simon Cowell of UKIP” tells his story. Bruce Bawer writes in Frontpage: Paul Oakley is a London barrister who’s also been a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leadership since 2011. In No-One Likes Us, We Don’t Care he has given us a brisk, gossipy, whimsical diary ...Read More...

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by Rich Swier “Sincerity in literature may not always be a virtue, but insincerity is almost always a vice.” – Theodore Dalrymple “A theater of the absurd is exactly that: absurd.” – Kenneth Frances Theodore Dalrymple, a former prison doctor and psychiatrist, and Kenneth Frances, who ...Read More...

Vivian Evans writes in Independence Daily: Paul Oakley’s book will be out on 1st of May – you can pre-order it at Amazon. It’s available in hardcover (very expensive), as paperback (still pricey) and on Kindle (very affordable). Having read the review copy I was given, here’s my recommendation ...Read More...

Journalist Eric Rozenman joined Eve in Washington DC to discuss his recent book “ Jews Make the Best Demons: Palestine and the Jewish Question”. How are medieval blood libels manifesting themselves today, and does ?the old UN resolution ‘Zionism is Racism' fit with Satanic forces? A must read for those ...Read More...

Michael Rectenwald delivers the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual ...Read More...

Review by James Heiser “At the moment postmodern theory lay dying in the academy, it bore a child, namely, ‘social justice.’ As mothers are the root of all evil in horror films, so postmodern theory would be in waking nightmares.” Thus begins Dr. Michael Rectenwald, professor of Liberal Studies ...Read More...

Michael's best-selling Springtime for Snowflakes is here. His upcoming book, Google Archipelago is here. ...Read More...

The authors of The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theater of the Absurd clearly feel an urgent existential imperative to grapple with the question of how we should live. It is, as they point out, a question even the nihilist must eventually answer. by Scott Beauchamp There really ...Read More...

Michael Rectenwald is interviewed on the Tom Woods Show Professor Michael Rectenwald, the former Marxist who will deliver the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Mises Institute's Austrian Economics Research Conference this year, returns for a sneak preview of what he plans to say there ...Read More...

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A review of Phyllis Chesler's book by Ida Lichter published in the Middle East Quarterly: Chesler's feminist awakening followed marriage to an Afghan student in the 1960s. Living in his home country, she found charming individuals, but the patriarchal society embraced purdah, arranged marriage, polygamy, ...Read More...