I’m always on the look out for new books to read (but what I really need is more time). Suggestions from friends, mentors, reviewers, blogs, and references in other books send me off on an endless cycle: hear about a book, find it on Amazon (or the library), purchase (or check out) said book, bring […]
Review | Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
2012-03-21 · by ·
Review | A Free-Market Monetary System and A Pretense of Knowledge by Friedrich A. Hayak
2012-02-08 · by ·
I recently read the short brochure “A Free-Market Monetary System,” a compilation of Friedrich A. Hayak’s 1974 Nobel Prize speech “A Pretense of Knowledge” and a short essay on proposing a free-market monetary system (hence, the name, see?). Both are short, and neither waste any time proposing radical changes to what was then, and indeed what is […]
Review | Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind
2011-12-14 · by ·
Ron Suskind’s a good writer, but he’s also in love with Barack Obama. Well, maybe not in love, but he’s certainly not an objective or dispassionate observer. Even while he’s observing that Obama may not have been ready for the Presidency, he’s lavishing praise on the politician. I read as long as I could, but […]
Review | The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law by Mark Herrmann
2010-12-29 · by ·
Whether you’re a newly minted lawyer or a third year associate, a solo practitioner or one of hundreds in a national firm, you should regularly review of the basics of practicing law. Research, writing, presentation, argument, and knowledge of the law are just tools of our trade, and keeping them sharp is as important to our practice […]
