From Electronic Book Review, a review of Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John Farrell and Is Oedipus Online: Siting Freud After Freud by Jerry Aline Flieger. From Failure, an interview with David Bernstein, co-author of Death To All Sacred Cows: How Successful Business People Put the Old Rules Out to Pasture; and a conversation with Jeff Yeager, the cheapest man in America. From Liberty, a review of Libertarianism: For and Against by Craig Duncan and Tibor R. Machan; more on Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg; more on Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter; if you're going to write a biography of Ludwig von Mises, you have your work cut out for you; and a look at the story of Laissez Faire Books: R.I.P.? A review of Samuel Freeman's Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawlsian Political Philosophy; Paul Graham's Rawls; Thomas Pogge's John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice; and David Lewis Schaefer's Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition. Matthew Yglesias reviews The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank. Is the Southern Strategy dead? Harold Meyerson investigates. Why “business ethics” fail: They don’t address the problem of greed. Daniel Freeman warns that the 21st century could be the "age of paranoia".
