Book Reviews

The Arts feature in this issue (see above) argues for nov­elist Ayn Rand’s renewed relevance. I wish to qualify that relevance. Rand is a writer more useful for the ideas she dispels than the ideas she proposes.
Rand’s proposed system, called Objectivism, is a forthright philosophic materialism in both its ethics and its metaphysics. In [...]

Book Review: Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg
For about fifty years running, the more sophomoric of our American liberals have, finding argument failing them, made occasional recourse to ad hominem and vitriol, calling their opponents “fascists.” The word satisfies a need in our economy of insult. It is less inflammatory than Nazi (which remains a favorite), [...]