Entries Tagged as ‘Reviews’

July 22, 2010

A Review of Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law”

As I detailed in the post about my week spent in D.C. at an Institute for Humane Studies seminar I received quite a few books for free.  One of them was a copy of Frederic Bastiat’s The Law. Bastiat was a French economist, philosopher, and for a short time occupied a seat in France’s legislative [...]

July 17, 2010

A Review of Inception…

I know that I promised that the next post would be an account of the ideas that I encountered at the conference I just attended but that will have to wait.  I saw the movie Inception today and it is such an excellent movie that it demands that I provide a little free publicity for [...]

February 17, 2009

Thoughts on Frost/Nixon…

I consider myself rather knowledgeable of history and politics. So I am bit embarrased to admit that I knew very little if anything about the Frost/Nixon interviews. In some ways this is an advantage in watching the movie because it leaves a measure of suspense to pull you through the story. The story is told [...]