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The raw deal
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his provocative new book New Deal or Raw Deal? (Threshold), Hillsdale College historian Burt...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
Punk/metal rules!
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite its distracting academic jargon, Steve Waksman's This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
Hating Milton Friedman
WHEN MILTON FRIEDMAN received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a protester disrupted the ceremony with shouts of "down with...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
A forgotten civil rights hero: the unappreciated legacy of entrepreneur-activist T.R.M. Howard
Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, Chicago: University of...
Reason, 04/01/09 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
Marketplace of ideas
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1872, traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward experimented with mail order catalogs to sell...
Reason, 04/01/09 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
The trouble with Thomas Jefferson: the eloquent founder's original sin
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 800 pages, $35 The Hemingses of...
Reason, 01/01/09 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
Sterilized by the state
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his startling new book Three Generations, No Imbeciles (Johns Hopkins University Press),...
Reason, 12/01/08 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
Zoning toward oblivion: how the Supreme Court's decision in Euclid v. Ambler shaped modern America
The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler, by Michael Allan Wolf, Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 208 pages, $35/$16.95 paper The...
Reason, 10/01/08 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
The party of Jefferson: what the Democrats can learn from a dead libertarian lawyer
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] ACCORDING TO A December 2004 survey by the Pew Research Center, about 9 percent of the...
Reason, 12/01/07 by Damon W. Root · More from publication -
When bigots become reformers: the Progressive Era's shameful record on race
The Progressive Era and Race: Reform and Reaction, 1900-1917, by David W. Southern, Wheeling, W.V.: Harlan Davidson, 240 pages, $15.95 The...
Reason, 05/01/06 by Damon W. Root · More from publication
