Should We Be Good Bankers?

Should We Be Good Bankers?

Be Good Bankers: The Economic Interpretation of Matthew’s Gospel, with a Fresh Translation By Michael Pakaluk. Gateway Editions, 2025. Hardcover, 340 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Paul D. Mueller. Should we be good bankers? Dr. Michael Pakaluk explores that...
Looking at U.S. Trade Policy Through a Historical Lens

Looking at U.S. Trade Policy Through a Historical Lens

Clashing Over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy By Douglas A. Irwin. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Hardcover, 832 pages, $38. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. The Trump years have thrust trade policy back into the national conversation for the first time since...
Sowell’s Summary Argument

Sowell’s Summary Argument

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Edward Weech. Over the past decade, the discourse of “social justice” has ripped through the Western world, inspiring a cultural insurgency that has undermined the...
Sowell’s Summary Argument

Vanquishing the Social Justice Warriors

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell.  Basic Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Much as varied channels and rivulets flow from a common source of water, many conservative and classical liberal arguments in the last half fifty...
Justice and Morality in Smithian Liberalism

Justice and Morality in Smithian Liberalism

Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism  By Daniel B. Klein. CL Press, 2023. Paperback, 338 pages, $14. Reviewed by Paul D. Mueller. Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism collects a series of academic articles and essays written by Daniel Klein and various co-authors....