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I a r c h - A p r i I 1 9 7 ~ - Vol. VI, No.2 $1.50

Inside the Third Reich HISTORY

Spandau: The Secret DiariesBy Albert Speer

Reviewed by James J. Martin / Inside, Macmillan, 1970 / $2.25 / Spandau, Macmillan, 1975/ $13.95

devoted to special projects, previously known asOrganization Todt.

The important part of Speer's first book, Insidethe ThirdReich, concerns what he is willing to tell---:-orwhat his various publishers will print-aboutthe state of German industrial production war andotherwise, 1942-45. Speer's reminiscences wereoriginally published by the German firm of Ull

editors, but knowing the history and leaning ofour Establishment publishers, it is safe to say thatthe chances of Speer's uncropped views reachingprint under their auspices is in the class with thoseof an asteroid striking the absolute center of alarge contemporary American city.

It is evident from the interview with Speerpublished in the New York Times on August 23,

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eadersPUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT

"I wish to announce the sale of LibertarianReview to Mr. Charles Koch· of Wichita,Kansas, an arrangement long under discussion and now concluded effective with thenext issue.

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Machan has just published an intrOductorytextbook for philosophy, entit led Introduction to Philosophical Inquiries, published byAllynand Bacon, Inc., in Boston,MA.-

Dominic Armentano.teaches economics atthe University of Hartford, in Hartford,Connecticut, and is the author of TheMyths ofAntitrust, published by ArlingtonHouse. He is a frequent contributor toLibertarianpublications. BruceBartlett is agraduate student in history at GeorgetownUniversi ty, and has worked for severalCongressmen on Capitol Hill. Dr. PeterBreggin is a noted psychiatrist, and authorof two novels, After the GoodWar and· TheCrazyf rom the Sane. He has written widelyon the relationship between psychiatry andthe St ate, a nd is a leading opponent ofcoercive. psychosurgery. His essays andreviews have appeared in a number of significant pUblications. David Brudnoy is asyndicated columnist, TV and radiopersonality , and a freelance writer. He

writes on films and books for variousjournals, and is the editor of The Conservative Alternative. Roy A. Childs, Jr . isa Research. Associate for the Center for

Libertarian Studies, and author of numerousarticlesand reviews in libertarian publicat ions . Beginning with the May/June

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Libertarian Studies and an associate editorof LR. He has wri tten widely on issuesrelating to history and economics, contri

radio personality. Regina Hugo is a freelance writer living in the state of Washington. Her review of Suzanne Langer'smasterwork Mind: An Essay in HumanFeeling appeared in an earlier issue ofLibertarian Review. LeonardLiggioteacheshistoryin the American Studies Program atSUNY, Long Island, .. is. on !he board ofdirectors of the Cen te r for. LibertarianStudies,' and is co-ed itor , with JamesMartin, of Watershed oJEtnpire, acollection of essays on New Deal foreign policypublished by Ralph Myles. James J. Martinis a leading revisionist historian, the authorof Revisionist Viewpoints, Men Against theState, and the monumental study AmericanLiberalism and World Politics 1931-1941.

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is the author of A Montessori Handbookand a freelance writer. Tom G. Palmer wasuntil recently on the national staff of theLibertarian Party and the national directorof the Young Libertarian Alliance. He iscurrently pursuing studies at St. J ohnsCol lege. Er ic Sco tt Royce works for theNati onal Right t o Work Legal DefenseFoundation andis the editor/publisher ofSouthern Libertarian Review. George H.Smith is the author of Atheism: The CaseAgainst God, and is a frequent lecturerandcontributor to libertarian publications. Heis also the d irec to r of the Forum jo r

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ittherent- in his own scheme of governmentfinancedpsycnotnerapy for an.Torrey would not onlY increase the, pOWc:f of

federal behavioral,scientists, he WQuid furtherstrengthen his much derided medical model.Schizophrenics, he tells us, have'a,brain disease.They should be treated by, physicians and t h ~ yshould be given drugs. That these ':!rugsare

n O I 1 ~ s p e c i f i c suppressoragents- that they simplysubdue the pat ient ·' :- passes him by. Thtls "hefollows in the footstepS of three hundred years ofbiological psychiatrists, all of whom, at every'point inhtstory, have made similarly unfoundedclaims concerning a "disease" subject to medical"treatment." In support of this view" Torrey citesonly a handful of modern a r t i c l ~ s . Had he beenwriting in the 1930's, he, would have cited dozensmore. They haveall fallen into disrepQlewith theirpassage before time's more objective eye.Will a book like Torrey 's do more harm than

good? It -may, for it borrows some obvious truthsfrom Szasz, and then perverts them in the interestof greater governmental control over our personallives. Is it worth reading? Definitely. It does offera panoramic critique of many psychiatric absurdities and abuses, while displaying a few of its own.But read Szasz first. As I've said before, if youhaven 't read a book by Szasz, do so before youread another word about psychiatry.•

Ludwig von Mises was one of th e century's intellectual giants.

' In .an era of growing collectivism he 'stood out as the most

influential and p ro found o f th e free-market economists, He

was the mentor of other giants like Nohel Laureate F. A. v<>u

Hayek, Hans Sennholz, Wilhelm Roepke, Jacques Ruefr,

Murray Hothhard, LUigi Einaud i and ' Ludwig Lachmann.

Three years after his death a t 92, interest in h is thought is

soaring as the conventional economic wisdom crumbles.

But i f Mises is an institution, the keystone of Austrian School

economics, what of Mises th e man? in the preface to this·

del ight fu l memoi r , h is wife o f thirty-five yearswrites:

"My husband was a very teserved person.,While he was k in d

IpSYCHOLOGY j

conversations with .customers interested in receiving personal help with their'problems! 'Consistent with this promotion,of bureaucratic

control, the National Institute ,of Mental Healthwould become the National Institute of BehavioralScience, clearly forshadowing my futuristic

National Agency for MentalSecurity in After theGood,War. All the so-called psychological, socialand'behavioral sciences would now be subject togo,:,ernment 'finance and control through this onesuper-agency.

Still more ominous, the government would nowbecome responsible for the equivalent of the "free

lunch" in psychotherapy. SaysTorrey, "The Statewould be responsible for making available loanstudentsa certain level of self;.education." By this,he means that the state would get into the businessof financing psychotherapy. While Torrey iscritical of othe.r grandiose psychiatric'schemes forthe public good, he neglects totalitarian threat

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e s ~ c l 1 i a t r } 'By .E. Fuller Torrey

...........

Few books have changed h i s t o ~ y , and stilIfewer, have changed it for the bet ter. One such

,book is Thomas ~ z a s z ' s ,Myth of Mental Illness.Its two-pronged'attack on the medical 'model forhuman" misery, and the involuntary treatment of

psychiatric patients has spearheaded a decade andmore of 'scientific, legal,ethical and political'resistance' to psychiatric fraud and, oppression.The fraud is that psychiatrists claim to treat a

m e ~ i c a l disease caned' "mental il lness;" theoppression takes place when they enforce thisviewpoint on' the hapless pat ient through in-voluntary treatment. _Szasz's critique has had vast i n f l u e n . c ~ ; it has

even begun , to reach into the .bowels of the

establishment. E. Fuller Torrey, the author ofTheDeath ofPsychiatry, is a psychiatrist with no less a'position than that of speciafassistantto theDirector of the National Institute of MentalHealth. How can a man who serves thegovernment agency' ,most .devoted to ' thepr()

motion of psychiatry nonetheless write a bookdrawing upon the wisdom of Thomas Szasz? Thesecret lies within the book itself: Torrey isexcellent on data, and at times seems very sharp in

"his criticismofspecific.concepts and practices; buthe falls far short-on fundamental ethical andpolitical principles, the kind. of ,libertarian ' i d ~ a l s

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WAR AND PEACE I

though Trumbo writes about a young Americaninfantryman. The young man of the .story ishorribly wourtded, deprived of his sight, smell andhearing (his entire face is gone), as wen as his arms

andl e g s ~

The book consistslargely of flashbacksto his life before he was "hit by an enemy shell"and entered as a number insorne report filed byna.meless bureaucrats'in Washington,: D.C. Nowthat it is lost,: he realizes how desi(able life is.

D u r i n g t h ~ m i d 1 9 6 ( ) s a t i d ; t ~ e ' Vietham War, the, .newspapers used't0 have littie'boxes on the frontpage l i s t i n g " ' t h e i r ~ ' 'deaddandHours."People ,would glance al them and then'turn to the comicssection. I t takessomething like Johnny' Got HisGunto remind you that each oneof those numbersrepresented a group of men, each of whom had alife, complete with memories, families, lovers,

hopes and plans. The War Lords .of Washingtonhad brJ!tally. rubbed . them ou t ... When a manbecomes a number ,it is easy to erase him withoutrem01:se.

, , 1know of no book

which brings home the case

for 'peace so well." ,

Jaroslav Hasek uses war as a stage on which tolambast and mock the State. Hasek was active inprewar libertarian circles in P r a g u ~ and wasinducted into the Austro-Hungarian army after along history of a n t i - S ~ a t e activism. He had takenpart in anti-imperialist demonstrations in 1897 and

in 1906 joined theCzechslovakian anarchistmovement. In 1907 he became' editor of ananarchist journal. Hasek was famous in Prague

the pranks he played on the monarchy and itsservants. One of the most daring'oftnese hoaxesoccurred' just prior to the war 's outbreak whenHasek took a room at the hotel U Valsu, knownfor being a half brothel and half hotel, andregistered as a Russian. The n.ame he registeredunder sounded Russian, but became "Kiss myarse" in Czech when read backwards. He declaredto the clerk that his reason for being in Prague wasto check into the activities of the AustrianGeneralStaff and,,\Vithwar.hysteria at ,full pitch" t . h e . d e ~ kclerk notifiedthe ·police. Tl)e gendaqnes,:thinkingthey' had an important . spy .on their .hands,surrounded the h o t ~ l , · · only to find the famouspranksterHasek. His response to questions abouthis purpose was that he was checking theefficiency ·of· the' Austrian police. Hasek theanarchist was jailed. 'This anecdote gives a hint of the content of

Hasek's famous masterwork",: which is largelybased on his own .wartime,experiences. The goodsoldier Josef·Svej k plays one hoax after anotheron the Austrian military.apparatus", He does t h i ~by simply following orders ... to theletter. Svejk.does all . he is ordered to do, precisely. as it isordereci, This, of course, i n e v l t ~ b l y ' l e a d s to chaosand the sightQf superior officers t e ~ r i n g t h e i r ha.irout by the, handful, for how can one punish sucllimbecUic o\:>edience? W ; ~ t h o u t a doupt, The GoodSoldierSvejk,isoneof the most hilarious books.Ihave e v e r r e a d ~ H a s e k , ' who.has been c o m p ~ r e dfavorably with Cervantes and Rabe,lais, h a ~ ,written one of the most' parbe,d.and witty· assa-u;ltson the State everpenned. While itis,along Qookn ;

and the writing is at times uneven . (Hasekwroteparts of it while drunk), 'the cop,tentis sufficientlycaptivating to enthrall the w ~ a d i 9 r from start. to

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I PROHIBITION

The Long ThirstBy"Thomas Coffey

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(Continued on page 16)

more than $400 million. There are infidelitiesscheming, ~ a n e u v e r i D ; g , shootings, beatings, p a y ~offs, and a great deal more .besides, all causedeffectively by Prohibition. Each chapter in The -

Long Thirst picks up a strandin thel ife of a major

character, with titles like: "The Country Gives in.Quietly," "President Hoover Appoints a Commission," "President Hoover Wishes He Hadn't

Appointed a Commission," "Franklin D. Roosevelt Admits He's Damp," and "The Long ThirstEnds." It readslike a good novel.. Today" we suffer from a "drug p r o b l e ~ . " Half

a century ago, we were'in the midst of the' 'boozeproblem," and what some pious intellectualfrauds called America's "noble experiment" ~Prohibition. Foisted upon unsophisticated Americans by a flock of biggoted "ProgressiveH

reformers and businessmen whose capacities for

tolerance were severely taxed by people enjoyingthemselves over a drink, Prohibition was indeedan experiment: an experiment in attempting tocontrol the consumption habits of the Americanpeople by oppression, intimidation, harassmentviolence, imprisonment, and murder. '

booze, and in the end finds himself o u t ~ a n e u -vered by shrewd politicans, such as FDR.We watch the rise and fall of lobbyist Wayne

Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League; attorneyGeorge Remus begins·with a $50,000 per yearlegitimate job, pours over the Prohibition lawswith cunning and intelligence, builds a liquorempire netting more than.$40 million. His wifeImogene makes it with a Prohibit ion agent,promotes his' destruction in· prison, dissipates hisfortune, and plots against his life, only to facejust ice in the end. We watch the career of AlCapone skyrocket, with Capone beginning as asubqrdinate and ending . with ·an operation worth

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Some months ago, on Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" television program, there was' an extraordinary guest, whose face was hidden from thecameraand thetelevision audience. He was identified only as "Joey the Hitman," and was a gun:.

for organized.crime, responsible for a greatmany killingsover the years. He had nocompunctions about h.is "job," had made a good living atit, and had published at least one pseudonymousmemoir about his experiences. He was a perfectguest for a talk show, and talk he did; for a fascinating hour.What struck this viewermostwere-his references

to the relationship between organized crime andgovernment intrusions into social life, outlawingsuch things as' loan sharking, prostitution, gambling and, particularly, illicit drugs. At the end of-the show, Joey made a rather'· surprising statement:hethanked the Women'sChristian Temperence Union for having made his interesting careerand life possible. Joey, i t transpired, had gottenhis start with the forces of organized crime duringProhibition, which theWCTU had helped to promote. It was a grandgesture, indeed,'fora hit manto thank such women for his successes in life.. Thomas Coffey makes a complementary.point

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Three themes' hinted at'. obliquely,in them are heresharply focused:

.1. Creativity is widely dispersed through the\population, with' intelligence .a Iiecessary condition of

really originalwork, but nota sufficientone.\ Creative people are both crazier and saner thanthe g e n e r ~ l population. That is, they.are unusuallyopen toprbfound .feelings, employing/repression farless thau'tlle average. This causes them to seem un

u s ~ a . l l y troubled, bu t they .• are a l s o s t r o n ~ enough to .handle such !temporary instability and a n x i e ~ y withou t falling apart. It is precisely this c o m b i n a t i o n ~ f .open s ~ l f - a w a r e n e s s ' w i t h i n t ~ g r a t i v e strength; t h ~ tmakes their creativity possiblt1.

3. I n d e p e n d e n ~ e of judgment is . s t r o b g l y ~ o r r e hltedwith originality and itsaccompany'ing personality traits. F o t e x ~ n l p l e , a g l ' P l l P i 9 f c r e a t i v e ~ ~ i t e ~ s

"A personmay besaid to be most elegant, and mosthealthy, when his awareness includes the b r ~ a d e s tpossible aspects of human .. experience, ..and ' thedeepest possible comprehension of them, while at ,

the same time he is most simple and direct in hisfeelings, thoughts, and actions."

Creativity and P-ersonal Freedom is a l a n d ~ a r k . Arich and suggestivework, it is the fruit of many yearsof thought'and research il1to thefo1;lndations of psy,.chQlogicaf.vitality, covering a prodigious array' .ofsubjects: the formation of personal philosophy,growth and change through. psychotherapy, .enrichinghuman relationships, the meaning of freedom

and free will" independence of jugement and :resistance,to conformity, what expansion ofconsciousness' means, drug and . r a n s c ~ n d e n t a l experience,creativity in aU its forms. Barron shows how p s y c h o ~logical'research, complete with normal c u r v ~ s and

distribution clusters, can deal with such complexand crucial phenomena.

His opening framework:

Then he begins tb i n t e r c o n n e c t , ~ · correlate, to giveexperimental validatibn' for many ·o f the themescovered more impressionistically and anecdotally bythe other books. '

I LIFE OFTHE MIND I

the freely-ranging activities of the imagination,. i.e.,both the range and i ts borders are necessary. Suchinsights proliferate and fecundate e:x:citinglythroughout this collection.

Rosner and Abt's series of interViews, TheCreative, Experienc'e; i s a perfectcoro,plenlcmt to theGhiselin anthology>Forhere we begin to place th ecreative process in the larger conte:x:t of the total life

e x p e r i e ~ c e . of the originators. These interviewees areall well-known, each in a different field; many areworld famous: Noam Chomsky, Harlow Shapley,Arthur Koestler, Aaron Copland, Edward Steichen,

etc. > /

C t ~ a t i v i t y and Personal Freedom/By Frank BarroD.

Several nights ago, mymind full ofthOlights aboutmy review, I ha d this dream: I t is early in Beethov e n ' ~ career. One day, a piece emerges from his penthat ne:and I .know carries· the first unJllistakeableearmarks of original genius. Someone"a'Sks me why. I

. a \ l s e . J ~ n o \ V i tas I know myown name, I am filledwlth:tne'wonder of i t . B u t I ~ a n ' t say, why. Andneitnercan Beethoven.

This expresses the sense .of mystery that seems toenvelop th e creative act. Does this mean inquiry is

t.:l?T tW i t K &. - ""tKT t I l I , ' , - - ~ ' : " -' ,'., ",':. - ..: : : : " , .. ' :-? ),a s ~ ~ . o quo e aer , a u ~ : w ~ ~ : p : ) ; ! : r ' . 7 . ' Y , ~ C ' ~ " . . . . .

: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : ~ ~ i ~ l h ~ : : ~ ; } ) j i ~ ~ l t ~ ~ 3 ' f i g l ~ ~ : e 1 f . , ' ~ ~ t i s i f ~ a n d s d ~ h t i i i cthisisuielydoes no t entail any claim that no mys- •• h h ·tedes remain.". ' creatIVIty, vi atever t elr. qreativityis one of the most fascillating and sig- d·ff' t· II~ i f i c a n t p u z z l e s of human nature. The creative act . I_erences, are essen la y

, . '.11ieGreative ExperienceE d ' ~ ~ ; \ ~ B y Stanley R o s n e ~ and LawrenceAbt

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~ t l e .. Greative Process'. E d ~ . B y Brewster . Ghiselin

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Government-Mandated I REGULA l iON ···1

\\

Price Increases

By Murray L.Weidenbaum

Defending the Undefendables:Walter Block.Thl' aUlhor ot-\:,",wt mas f.,l' lhl' 111 tI'", l'tllllrtl\'(.'r,ial bnok 111

t he h i slory of , i l l ' Iiherutl'ian nWH'l11l'IlI'e,\pl'lin, why he I'l'

' gards pros li tu tt ' s , s lumlords and o ther 'lldal 1IIHk,ir' lbk, a'

"heroe, ' " Tape 745 (51 min.1 SI).I)5

simply wants people to have their eyes open andnot be fooled into thinking they are getting

something for nothing.This is an excellent work. One of the most

hard-hitting AEIhas ever published. While onecould hope for more forceful conclusions, onecannot deny that much of the present support forderegulation in Congress is a direct result ofstudies like this one. I can only commend ProLWeidenbaum and AEI for a job well done. _

In Septeml:ier of I<}70. more than 000en thusiast ic liberta r ians f rom around the c o u n ~ r v (and the world ) descendedon Wa:;hington,D,C. li,r the Libertarian Party'sIilih national

convention."The best convention ever! " was the ' e rd i ct o f many delc

gates·when the four-day event was over.,...·

The 1976

LIBERTARIAN PARTYNatiDnal' Cenvention

same with- all the other agencies Weidenbaumexamines.

In keeping with AEI's policy of balancing itsc o n c l u , ~ i o n s , W e i d ~ n b a u m tries to'avoid outrightadvocation.of the abplishment of federalregutatory agencies.Jlisobjectis only to show that suchregulat ions are not for free. The: cost may behidden by h i g b ~ J ; " prices, it Js/there nevertheless. If s o c i e W : d ~ e m ~ t h e cost justified by thebeIJefits, well that is all right toWeidenbaum..He

In recent. testimony before. the .. Senate Subcommittee on A\viation, John. E. Robson,. chafrmanoftheCivilAeronautics Board, said that theboard found "persuasive" t h ~ n u m e r o u s studieson the airl ine industry which concluded thatregulation had led to inefficiency, thwarteddesirable change and benefited vested interests atthe public's expense. "Close a n ~ l y s i s seems to

bear "out that regulation has, over time, probablyproduced a higher cost level than would haveoccurred in its 'absence," he admitted.'In 1974, Lewis A. Engman,.chairman of the

'Federal TradeCommission,made.similar c h a r ~ s ."Oui airlines, our truckers, ourrailroad,s, ourelectronic ~ e d i a , and countless others are.on thedole," h e ~ a i d . " W e g e t irateabout:welfare fraud,but our comp1ex systeJJls !ofhidden regulatorysubsidies make welfare fraud look like pettylarc<;ny ',"

, l{evlewed:by·;Brnce B a ~ t l e t t I American.Enter:p r i s e J n s t i t u t ~ , l ~ ~ ~ 1'$3.00 .

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patient hut firm insistence that the aim of education "is to facilitate" unders tanding in all its

f o r m s ~ " The university, therefore, should notconcern itself only with the accumulation ofknowledge, or withmere technological proficiency

in a given field; rather, it should seek the "enlight"eninent of mind." This is the criterion by which tojudge the relative importance of.subjects offeredby universities; those subjects concerned withfundamental principlesare themost essential for acultivated mind. Moreover, "Every course in thecirriculum should be a course in thinking, in thesense that it should give the studentdiscipline int he sifti ng of evidence, t he d raw ing ofconclusions, and the checking of these conclusionsagainst the facts."In oppositiofl to many educationalists,

Blanshard believes that values are objective - that

one's judgment of art, fo r instance, is not simplyan issue of taste - and he believes that a functionof education is to instill!in students a respect forvalues. "We are threatened," Blanshard argues,"with a blight of standardlessness, and it is nowonder that students complain' of alienation andthe meaninglessness of life."With this empha,sison principles and values,

Professor Blanshard quite naturally concludesthat "philosophy lies at the heart,of education."But this, he emphasizes, does not.mean·a philosophy, in the,sense of a specific doctrine. Instead, itpertains to an attitude, a frame of mind - "the

philosophic temper, the habit of criticism and selfcriticism, the tying of one's self-respecLto beingreasonable in belief and behavior."

" In these pages we seenot just Brand \Blanshard',the philosopher, but Brand

Brand Blanshard is the model philosopher aworthy ideal for the intellectual in. search of ahero.

The Usesofa Liberal Education

-acollectionof essa,Ys and lectures spanning many years - is

less technical than the above books; and for thisreason itis also more revealing. For in these p a g e s ' ~

t we. see not just Brand Blanshard the philosopher;but Brand Blanshard· the man - · ·a man of deepcommitment tovalues and to the'impattial pursuitof truth.

... Thyse essays revolve around the nature andgoals of a liberal educat ion, and they share a

Moss, LaurenceS.

lew cassetles for<11- readers

Brand Blanshard is one of the greatest philosophers of our age. In addition to his magnum opuson epistemology, The Nature of Thought, he haswritten a magnificent trilogy of critical works:Reason and Goodness, Reason and Analysis, andthe recently published Reason and Belief. Theseworks reveal·a profound, agile mind of remarkable grace,charm, and benevolence. In short,

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By Brand Blansh/ard

The Uses of, a PHILOSOPHY

LiberalEducation

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How YOU Can Profit From The Corning

(Continued on Page 1.)

mas tering these techn iques. There are a lotof so-called geniuses who will lose their shirtsunder price controls. and some of theM willhave Ph.D's in economics.

If you master these techniques. and if

you have the d e d i c ~ t i o n to app ly them. youca,n join the tanks of the insiders. Some of

i n t u i t ~ d decades ago, not only as good'newspaperpolicy but as sound politicalphilosophy. What presumptuous: endorsercould have foreseen, in 1974,what he would be getting in a Browngovernorship? Certainly not ,Buddhisteconomics!

Hollies newspapers, particularly TheRegister, have been accused often ofnot providing''balance," of not givingplayto a variety of opinions. To whichwe counter that nothing shall be givenspace if it does not pay its most sfncerehomage to the truth, that no editorialcolumnist shall be fiddled with if he orshe does no t a tt empt to present thenature of man in its correct condition.There is, as Roy Childs insisted in these

pages, a closed question. Oh, therecan,., and should, be disagreements; forthat we publish daily an inordinately!huge - a brimming - letters-to-theeditor.,column.

YOU CAN MASTER THIS "WEIRD"

SYSTEM OF MAKING MONEY

Some people know it instinctively. Fort hem it's ea sy. Most of us don 't have it

automatically. Ihad to learn itthrough manyyears of study. -::. in college. in graduate

years ago no self-respectingcommentator.would have allowed such a phraseas "a gang of unelected bureaucrats"to .creep·into his copy. Too'cranky.Too, good Lord, right wing. TooHoilesian, enough 'in itself to. bringapoplexy to the good offices of theColumbia Journalism Review.

Now the most primitivepoints of the.libertarian philosophy are showing" upin the strangest places: from some ofthe posturings of Jerry Brown to theenunications' of Pat Moynihan, fromthe campaign orat ions of RonaldReagan to the banquet musings of

Edmund Muskie - none of whom hasmastered the heart or the mechanics ofafree society. Would that they had an

ounce ofR. C.'s wisdom. Even the LosAngeles Times, I understand, hasstoppedendorsing national candidates,this leading into an investigation ofwhat effects (nil!) editorial endorsements have on most elections. This,again, was something R. C. HolIes

PRICE CONTROLS

RICHARD NIXON'S GHOST

That President Carler S ~ y s H e W o n ' t Impose (Maybe)

President Carter i'2nnounced on Dec. 3 .1976. that he does not i nt en d t o askCongress to grant hi,m standby authority toimpose price and wage controls. RichardNixon' said the same thing in 1970.

page, and Ayn Rand's apartment, has.mushroomed into a vital movement,whiCh its proponents call libertarian.

.Not long ago I watcqed a televisioneditorialist animadvert againstthe statecoastal commission, which, in itsinimitably counterproductive way, wascomprised, she said, .of "a gang ogunelected'bureaucrats." Now, I know,and maybe you know, that five or ten

ByK. E. Grubbs, Jr .

Editorial Pages and Individual Liberty

I love the image. He was thoroughly

immersed, the late founder of mynewspaper and a chain of. now 23others, in the writingof a book: how toachieve a fair and ajustsystem'of taxation. Finall¥, month'after exasperatingmonth of thiriking, studying, corresponding with his favorite economists,he threw up his former subscriptionseller's hands, possibly tearing off hisgreen eyeshade, and 'halted the project.There is no such thing, R. C. Hoilesconcluded, asa fair and a just tax.

Thus the world was denied probably

the onlybook R. ·C. Holies thought ofwriting. But that bit of wisdom withwhich his writing project was haltedhas worked its way in a substantial wayinto an editorial philosophy whicll forsome forty years governed. aJ:li-mated arty. useful political discussionthat took place down in OrangeCounty,California. If the philosophywas curmudgeonly, it was libertarian;if! if ,was cynical" about· ... the role ofgovernment, it .placed an unqualified

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Reviewed by Leonard Liggio / Harperand Row,1975 / $20.00

"The final struggle will be between the commu

nist and theex-commllnist."· I g n a z i o ' S i l o m : ~ ' sf amous words int roduce John P. Diggins'"intellectual history of the ' fi nal struggle' inAmerica." Diggins believes that before· we can .understand the Cold War and the New AmericanRight which has its roots in · the Cold War, it isnecessary to understand "ex-communism." "The

rise of theNewAmerican Right outo(the ashes ofthe Old Amer ican Left was one of the· greatpolitical surprises.of our time," Diggins writes.

This evolution of the·NewRight

fromit s.politicalancestor, the Old Lef t, i s one of the most impor

tant events .incontemporary intellectual history,yet it· has received practically no· attention from.scholars. Up From Communism unfortunately

orily scratches the surface of the subject,.but still,i t makes for all· important beginning.Before the Old Left i tself emerged in America,

in reaction to WorId War I and the. Soviet'Revolution,. there was an Original Left that was,as Diggins describes it , a n a r c h o ~ l i b e r t a r i a n , and

which was at leastdecentralist in orientation whenitwas no t that developed. One of the failures of

the liberal control over themedia was so great thatnot only was theradical·Old Right excluded fromi t, a New Right drawn from a dissent ing wing of

the Old Left was subst ituted for i t, as well. Thiscan be seen most clearly in the case of National'Review for, as Diggins writes,"abouthalf of

NationalReview'seditorial board was . . . Stalin'sgift to t h e A m e r i ~ a n Right." Stalin was said to

have made a "reyolution in one country," bu t hismeddling in foreign Communist parties created exCommunists who in America became his "Greek

gift" to the American opponents of liberal corpo-ratism. /

One of the most memorable points in Diggins'book is his recounting of the incident of about

1930, when leadership of American commu

nism attending a Comfnternmeeting in Moscowwere denounced by Stalin fo r holding that ·therevolutionary crisis in America was n()timmediate. After the denunciation, Stalin·walkedpast the Americans and held ou t his hand to

.Edward Welsh,an American black. Welsh askedloudly: "What the hell does this guy want?" and

would not shake.hands with Stalin. The spirit ofAmerica's O r i g i n ~ Left is caught in that episode.One further step was necessary to recapture thatOriginal Left: .asking why an American 'radical I

would be seeking advice in any place bu t A m e r i c a ~ - ' oDiggins concentrates . on . Max Eastman, John

individualists and isolationists of the9ld Right,were at the same time opponents of militarism,interventionism and the Cold War. They opposedStalin and the domestic system of the SovietUnion, but saw that war would actually prove afar greater threat to American liberties· than anything happening inside the Soviet Un.ion.

John Dos Passos, "the novelist':historian of

anarcho-individualist sensibilities," never joined aCommunist group, .and thus had very .differentreactions to world events than tbosewho did. Unfortunately, Diggins does no t b r i n g _ ~ l h i s ou t

enough. He indicates that·Dos Passos, unlike theother radicals who became conservatives, neverchanged his views: he was never a Communist, hewas always an anarchist. Dos Passoshad beeninfluenced by the Original American Left.beforeAmet:ican entry into World War I,andemerged

from tha t crusade to make the world safe .fordemocracy holding "war horrifying, .the state amonstrous fraud, and society the .spectacle of

oppressed· humanity. Everywhere·he saw powerbeating down upon the individual; nowhere couldhe fiIid freedom."

Dos .Passos opposition to New Deal liberalismwas rootedin his view that no radicalism would besuccessful unless rooted in the productive middleclass majority. He advocated a cooperativecommonwdllth against the NewDeal, o fwhich hewrote Edmund Wilson: "The upshot of if is that

you and me and the Forgotten Manaregoingto "get fucked plenty." In opposit ion to .thePopull,lJ '=--

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Most interesting were the views of Herberg andEastman toward Joseph McCarthy. Eastman sawthe origins of McCar thyism in the New Dealpolicies leading to World War II and Roosevelt'suse of intelligence operations against isolationists.Eastman said: ' ' ' I f it were Nazism, instead of

Communism, that was beingattacked in this crudeway, I doubt if the majority of them would utter apeep against i t- in fact, they didn' t u tter a peepwhen Roosevelt and Francis Biddle staged the trialfor conspiracy of the 40-odd peoplewho had neverseen each other or communicated with each otheruntil they came into the court room-an amalgamafter the bes t Stal inis t and Hit ler ite models. "McCarthyism was directed against domest icliberals, and the major partof the liberal attack onMcCarthyism was that it undermined the anticommunism of the Cold War run by the liberals.Herberg saw that McCarthyism was a creation of

the liberals who were bankrupt in their own NewDeal policies, and needed a rallying point, in thiscase, a defensive one. Their "compulsive" attackson McCarthy gave him publici ty and poli tica lpower. "Herberg was one Of the first Americanwriters to interpret McCarthyism as a threat fromthe Left, as the demagogy of mass politics."

especially his Trotskyism. A similar view has beenpresented by James Gilbert in his essay in A NewHistory of Leviathan. Burnham disagreed withChurchi ll , De Gaulle, Taft and Lippmann thatt radi tional Russian security moves in Eas ternEurope could bemet with conservative diplomacy.

To his fellow ex-Communists, Burnham declared:"I n relation to the struggle against communism,the Ameican businessman is too ignoran t, toogreedy, too reactionary, and, in a certain sense,too cowardly."Diggins notes a dillema: "What to call oneself

posed an awkward problem for the Old Left-NewRight intellectuals." The ex-Communists carriedover a great deal of the collectivism of the OldLeft. It had been Marxism and the failure of theSoviet Union to be collectivist that repelled themfrom Stalin. Conservatism was attractive becauseit shared many of the collectivist values of

communism. For many conservatives, the freemarket was seen as destructive of the timelesscontinuity and unity of the community which theytreasured. The New Conservatism of the ex-Com-

munists had no connection with the values of theOld Right: the individualism, isolationism, decentralism, unmonopolized market of Main Street.The Old Right was impenetrable to the chic of

liberal corporatism. The world of Dostoevski,Trotsky, TomKahn and IrvingKristol was not the

world of Mark Twain, Bob LaFollet te , MarioSavio and Prairie neo-isolationists. It is importantto note that none of the ex-Communists wereactive in the struggle of isolationists in 1941 fornoninterventionism inWorId War II. The struggleagainst corporate liberalism's interventionismwasthe major defining effort of the Old Right. I t wasnot a recruiting ground for National Reviewcomparable to the Communist factions.When a split developed among the ex-Old Left

in the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the rightwing rallied around William Buckley's project tofound National Review. Diggins discusses

Buckley's breaks with Objectivists, the anarchismof Murray Rothbard and the New Individualist


,, .

. . war horrifying, thestate a monstrous fraud,and society the spectacle ofoppressed humanity. Everywhere he saw power beatingdown upon the individual;nowhere could he find

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Decontrolling -MoneyBy Richard Ebeling

For the past thirty years Austrian economist Fried

r ich von Hayek has devoted the major par t o f histime to investigations of the political and philosophical foundations of the free society. In his 1960 trea

tise, The Constitution ofLiberty, he had warned ofthe dangerous nature of inflationary monetary policies which "in the long r un, mus t destroy the

foundations of a free society." But regardless of howdisruptive government control of money had been,Hayek still believed that not only was aseparation of

money andthe State "politically impracticable todaybu t would probably be undesirable if it werepossible."

With his magnum opus,Law, Legislation. and Lib-erty, almost completed, Professor Hayek is now onceagain returning to the problems of monetary theoryand policy with which he began his.career over fifty

years ago. In early 1976, he published a short pamphlet.on Choice in Cu"ency in which he declaredthat government monopoly over money has become

harmful that the only "effective check against the

, 'When one studies thehistory of money,' says

Hayek, 'one cannot help

modity prices representing a market basket "o f

widely traded products such as raw materials, agricultural foodstuffs and certain standardised semifinished industrial products." They have the advan

tage of being "traded on regu la r markets , t he irprices are promptly reported and, at least with rawmaterials, are particularlysensitive and would therefore make it possible by early action to forstall tendencies towards general price movements." For

when the index began to r ise i t would be a signal forthatbank to withdraw its currency from circulationand when the index began to fall to increase the

quantity· of i ts currency outstanding. Not every region or bank would.choose to use the same index of

goods because dif ferent areas may f ind dif ferentcommodities relevant to its production and consumption patterns. In fact, in some communities the

use of different indexes mayo v e r l a p ~

resulting in thecompeting currencies expanding and contracting independentlyof each other.

Why would a currency of stable value be desired

by the public? Because, says Hayek, the requirements for economic calculation and the desire forless uncertainty involving contracts for deferred payments would probablymake this the most preferredtype of medium of exchange. And the possibleutilization of alternative competing monies availableon the market would act as a res traint on recklessmonetary expansion on ' the party of any bank. For

It would seem, then, that what is requi red is not 'more and different monies, bu t less. But, ProfessorHayek's proposal would see the proliferation of currencies. Competing currencies using various indexes

to determine their "stable" values, all having theirexchange rates fluctuating between each other, cannot be considered a situation conducive to economictrade and stability. In fact, instead of only havingnational currencies to contend with, market participants would soon find themselves burdened withfluctuating monies in the states and provinces, citiesand towns and even on the samecityblock.

Yet, even if we are willing to concede the pos

sibility of continued efficient and complex trade pat-

terns under competing currencies, as ProfessorHayek suggests could occur through the use of hand

calculators and constant up-dated reports on radioand in newspapers about what the exchange ratesare between currencies at any one moment, we must

still wonder about the process that would even resultin the emergence of these competing mediums of exchange.

As Hayek points out, "During the Middle Ages . . .the superstition arose that it was the act of government that conferred the value upon the money . . . Inthe early years of this century the medieval doctrinewas revived by the German Professor G. F.Knapp . . . " in his book The State Theory ofMoney.And, as Hayek continues, " It is probably impossible

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•rapidly or over as an extended period, as the exchange medium they had previously util ized. It

seems, at the least, questionable whether individualswould showmuch willingness to accept a new moneywhose own present value is only represented by apromised intention to keep its future value stableaccording to a designated index number and whoseredeemability is in initiallyfixed quantities of a money (or monies) from which individuals are trying to"flee." It is because market participants no longerhave confidence in existing currencies that there oc

curs theflight into "real goods" or into commoditiesthat demonstrate that "saleability" in exchange relationships, e.g., gold, silver, etc.But the greatest weakness of Professor Hayek's

proposal is the suggested goal of monetary manipulation on the part of the private banks so as to keepthe value of their currencies stable. Though he admits that, "Strictly speaking, in a scientific sense,there is no such thing as a perfectly stable value of

, , He contemplates a systemof alternative currencies inwhich each issuing bankwould promise and attemptto keep the value of itscurrency constantthroughan expansion or contraction

economic activities. And furthermore, it will only bea particular number ofthese relative prices that willact as signals to inform producers whether any specific line of production should be expanded or contracted or what combinations of resources to use inproducing the product.For instance, an increase in productivitywill mean

that a given volume of resources will now be able toproduce a larger output. The price of the productwill tend to fall. The consumer would now be in thepositionto purchase a given or increased quantity of

the product at a lower price. How the decrease inprice will influence the relative profitability of thefirm or industry experiencing this greater productivity will depend on how responsive demand is to thechange in price. I f the proportional increase in quantity d e m a n d ~ d of the product is greater than the proportional.decrease in price (i.e., demand is elastic),the firm may not only find it sti ll profitable to employ the same amount of economic resources as before the fall in price, bu t may even find it profitableto hire an increased amount of labor and capital. If,onthe other hand, the change in quantity demaridedis less than the proportional change in price (i.e.,

demand is inelastic), then it would probably be impossible for the firm to continue to employ the samevolume of resources and cover the costs of production at the lower price. The new cost-price relationship, in this latter case, would act as a signal that acertain amount of the factors of production shouldbefreed from their present occupation and beshiftedtowhere they can more profitably be utilized. And itwould only be by an appropriate movement of thesevarious prices for the final product as well as for thefactors of production that a successful transfer of

resources to reflect ultimate consumer demand couldbe guaranteed.

one so as to preserve a "price level" and a "stable"value of money and if the monetary increases continue to enter the economy in a particular manner,then a lop-sided overproduction will begin to develop. The malinvestments and misdirections of resources induced by the monetary expansion willeventually materialize in the form of a depressionwhen the factors of production spend their highermoney incomes over time in a manner reflecting thetrue consumer demands for the alternative marketproducts.

" I ~ s t e a d of only havingnational currencies tocontend with, marketparticipants would soonfind themselves burdened

with fluctuating monies inthe states and provinces,cities and towns and even onthe same city block.; , ,

A system of competing currencies of the type Professor Hayek suggestswill onlytend to magnify thesemonetary disturbances. For if a single monetary

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OSHA to continue"such inspections outside Idah9, butthe district court decision boosted the spirits of anitOSHA businessmen and congressmen. Chances forpassage are dim at best, but Republican Reps. Symms.and Hansen (Idaho) and Rousselot (Calif.) have agmnintroduced legislation (H.R. 676) to repeal Occupational Safety and Health Act. A variety of reform.mea

sures have also been put in the hopper, including ,measure by Rep. Robinsort (R-Va.) to award attorneyfees to employers who successfully contest OSHA citations.

Public Financing - Last December, before the new95th Congresshad even begun to meet and ponder thecountry's problems, a bipartisan group of liberal members ledby Rep. Udall (D-Ariz.) announced its intentionto promote legislation to institute public financing of

congressional races. The House Administration Com-'mittee reportedly intendsto holdhearings on tl:}e presentFederal Election Campaign Act and proposed amendments to it by early spring. Udall and company .arespoiling for a fight, but they may. 'yet . have trouble

extending the act's coverage. A Common Cause surveyof the House released in mid-December revealed only181 members willing to go on record in favor of .suchfunding for congressional general election races - 46fewer than had publicly supported it in the 1974 poll.

Along similar lines, Rep. Rodino (D-N.J.) and Sen.Kennedy (D-Mass.) are sponsoring bills (h.R. 66, S.270) to authorize federal payments to individuals and"public interest groups" for their involvement in thefederal administrative and rulemaking process.

Speaking of FDR, Democratic Reps. Duncan (Ore.)and Meeds (Wash.) are among those introducing legislation (H.R. 352, H.R. 30) to establish a Young AdultConservation Corps modeled on the CCC of the 1930s.

Also returning essentially uncha!1ged for considera

tion this year is the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act. Still calling for extensive national economic planning and massive federalexpenditures, the measure bears the same bill numbers'(H.R. 50, S . 50) as in the 94th Congress.

Foreign Trade - Rep. Bingham (D-N.Y.) introducedlegislation January 10 t o repeal section 5 (b) of theTradingWith the EnemyAct. It was this particular portion of the U.S. statutes that President Ford employedto extend export controls when the Export Administration Act accidentally lapsed in 1976. Section 5 (b) hasbeen utilized to bar commerce with nations like Cubaand Vietnam. It also provided authority, Binghamnoted, "for actions as diverse as the 'bank holiday' of

draft to be implemented in "emergency" situations.Democratic conservative Senators Stennis (Miss.) andNunn (Ga.) have been promoting such legislation,which has the endorsement of DOD.

Blocking passage of any such attempt to ease backinto conscription should be a primary legislative goalfor libertarians in 1977.

OSHA - T h ~ U.S. District Court forIdaho deliveredthe nation a New Year 's surprise when it ru led onDecember 30 that the warrantless, no-warning inspections of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are unconstitutional. Supreme CourtJustice Rehnquist later issued a ruling which allowed

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Conscription - When President Carter's.cabinet andcabinet-level appointments were made public, somegroups and publications on the· political left expressedgrave reservations (see, for instance, "Hail, Hail, TheGang's AllHere," The Progressive, February 1977, pp.5-6). Their concern, based on the LBJ-era Vitenamxelated records of such persons, was particularly acutein relation to nominees like HaroldBrown, Mr. Carter'sselection to run the massive Department of "Defense"(DOD).

Increasing evidence indicates that such critics wereeminently correct. Secretary Brown has endorsed enactment of legislation that would provide for a standby

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/

Grubbs/Continued from page 9)

Ours is a proud philosophic tradition t one not swayed.by the politicalwinds left or right. The Register was

one of the only newspaper.to editoriafize against the incarceration of

Japanese-Americans during World

War II.Three and four decades ago weopposed compulsory schooling; nownearly every respectable intellectual tavantz garde or traditionalistt questions it. Even then we .knew the toot

causes of inflation: government deficitspending catalyzing the printing of

official currency.We were propheticabout that.And we have tried as best we can to

stay consistent. .You will not find usfussing about civil libertieswithout requiring economic liberties: if a revolutionist/professor should be allowed to

And there are .shades· of d i s a g r e e ~mentamong out -libertarian writers;but their objective is to promote individual···· freedom. No liberal .obfuscationists for us. Our theory: there issmall interest in explaining, say, the

nuances of the Kissinger-to-Vancetransit ion;· both Henry and. Cy arecareer foreign service bureaucrats,likely to Mayaguez it one day, turnoverthe Canal to Torrijos the next. Todaily readers, it all becomes a blur, justpolitics. What matters' is the enlargement of their liberties. Our surveysindicatearlextraordinarily high editorial-page readership: people whoseyearnings,however inchoate,. are forprotec tions against the imp_ersonalstate.

I t is important to say we count asproofofouf thriving the numerous de-'tractors. I close, not with somethingmore ringing and eloquent, such asannouncing my own lifelong goal, my

own lost caUse: to prove SorenKierkegaaid wrong in his .prophecythat the daily press would prove Chris-'tianity's strongesteoemy.·Kierkegaardwasa better prophet than I , a t least asgood asR. C. Hollies, sarlI n91 dwell

on it. Instead I quote a recent letter tothe editor:"Gentlemen: . . . Without doubt nor

qualifications, I believe tha t I canunequivocally state that your crummynewspaper is the most biased, 'inaccurate, right wing reactionary, misleading rag of slanderous journalism Ihave ever had the unfortunate experience of reading . . . All yourcruddy ragdoes is to pontificate about. the evilways of the political system and its,partietpants in a self-righteous manner

.. . . Rarely does·your editorial pagediscuss a problem and then offer intelligent soltitions. Rather t the enti rethrust of the editorial page is to bitch,.complain, and whine about complex

problems without ever offeringsoIu·tions or giving a deserving.Rolitician·olbureaucrat a pat 011 the back fo r a jot

well done when they have attempted'tcaddress problems."I believe our correspondent to O€

exactly right, not that we are slandero u s ~ right wing, inaccurate (we are, ofcourse, on our editorial pages, biased):and so .on; but that we do carp andcomplain seemingly without end, andthat, most 'cruddily of all, there isentirely too much political perfidy torail· against, particularly in. OrangeCounty, once a sort of homestead forlibertarianism, now a production 'linefor convicted felons who simultaneously wouldhold office. We do look tcthe future there.

We should like nothing better thanto find a pol it ician or a bureaucra t topat ontheback. Not anidlehope, is it?Or was Kierkegaard correct? _

"TheAlternative isiconbusting,bravvlinglystaid,and vvonderfully

speak t and he should t so too should a

'-', , Our,s is a proud

philosophic tradition,

,one not swayed by thepolictical winds left

or right."

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,MalcolmMcDowell as the oldest cabin'boy on earth, winding up dead of hisown hand, in bed with his .youngJewis,h girl firendaboard ship, and'. .The 6utline of the Nazi deviousness is'sketched, but . . . nothing of substance

gets in the way· of. the pure soapopera . . . that this monumentallyexpensive, engorged movie becomesafter about ten m i n ~ t e s on screen.

IN REVIEVV

NAZI CHIC

By David Brudnoy

On View

Previously he produced, most notably,three X-rated full length feature animated films, each displaying tremendous talent but all in spine way or otherunendurable: 'Fritz the Cat, HeavyTraffic, and Coonskin. Bakshi did well

in s o m ~ of the more avantgarde arthouses but his filrns didn't do muchbusiness elsewhere. Now he's,made hisconcessiQn to commercial reality and

constructed a PG-rat ed animatedfeature' called Wizards, subtitled "A

Madam Kitt.y is soft-core "porn." Tale ofSword and Sorceryin the Yearan X-rated disaster tha t would have 2,000,000 A.D.," and while it's cer-one take it seriously because of some tainlygoing to make him more moneyalleged correspongence between it and owing to its greater accessability as aanother true story. Seems the Gestapo non-X film, and though it displays thebugged a German whorehouse, s taffed man's considerable talents and hasit with specially trained ladies of the much power" it t oo is Nazi chic.

night, and recorded al l the bedtime i The story takes place far in thefrolic, the better to weed out potential future, ,after the world's been reduced

nobody wanted the Jews, which, as or actual defecters from the master to rubble, and' al l the ear th is poputhings turned. out , was nearly true. race',s corps of splendid soldiers. To lated, where populated at all, ,byAnguish in spades overwhelmed the, train the female spies, the authoriti es mutan ts, elves, fairies, and a ' few

.ship of pathetics when Cuba devised a wonderfully ingenious course vaguely human types. The forces of

refused the St. Louis "landing privi- in degradation, much of i tgruesomely good are ral lied by the old wizard, theleges, and Franklin, ,Roosevel t com- shown on screen. ,bad by his brother, who models hispounded the horror with a similar In the first such scene three or, four methods and his objectives'on ..,.- needpolicy on our shores. ' dozen of the nubile ,creatures line up, we say it? - Hitler and the National /

At the very last moment , owing' to jaybird n a k ~ d , and , a re joined by an Socialists.valiant work by a: Jewish relief organi- equal number of young Nazi studs, the The conflict, ensues in due course,zat ion, four European countries (Bri- assemblage then abandoning t h , e m ~ with what seems like hours of war

.tain"Elolland, Belgium, and France) selves .. to virtually the whole of the footage,' Hi tl er shrieking, etc., etc.,each agreed to receive a quarter ofth e Kama Sutr a posi tion book. Next, the etc., thrown into spice up the animapassengers; ofcourse the bulk of them ladies are thrown iit with dwarfs, tion. The swastika emerges, in the yearwound up inthe Nazihands soon after , 'cr ipples, dotards, to test their mettle 2,000,000A.D.,as the ultimate symbolas H it ler's legions ,marched under less than ideal circumstances. of horror. Granted, the symbol evokes

, ~ ¥ e ~ r a _ n ~ ; f ~ U b u t , : B J 7 i t a i p ~ : ~ ~ ~ s . t o r y j s A t l ~ f . ' a ~ a y w e g o ; · The master of the dread in most civilized persons today,q u i t ~ t r u e a n d quitegha.stly;,arid a fine, revels is' played by Helmut Berger, of apdthere are few experiences in ourst irring movie might one day be made latea specialist in enacting kinky roles. century which can rival the Reich forof it. Voyage of the Damned i sn 't it. Here he's enamored of sequinned out- s.heer awfulness. But .there art?· a few,'Thisis a compendiuillof p r e d i ~ t a b J ~ fits, with lightning bolts and bejewelled and their symbol is hammer and ,sickle,stere-otypes moving mechanically swastikas for trim, while the title char- andtheirterritory is Eurasian, 'centeredthrough thei r part s, a handkerchief acter is, p laye4, as some sort of well.. in Moscow anqPeking.

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To Understand Is To Invent is a 'book in whichPiaget has dealt, t o an extent rare for him, withthe problems of education and the practical implications of his pioneering work in cognitive development and related fields. It is must reading or,better, must studying for educators and all thoseconcerned with child and adolescent psychology.

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ous coordinatio.p. o'f actions. Reciptocity bliilds thespirit of underStanding and tolerance towards aUnations, racial alldreligious groups.

Readers will be pleased that To Understand Is

To Invent is a less dif ficult book than most ofPiaget,'s works. Students of the Montessoriapproach will notice alarge number of strikingcompatibilities between the ideas found here andthose in the :writ ings .of the Italian physicianeducator. She, like Piaget, recommends a prepared environment with an array of manipulatablematerials fostering individualized education. Hermethod too emphasizes freedom, activity, selfpacing, the joy of work. Finally, it is worth notingthat for years Piaget was president of the SwissMontessori Society.

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that is necessary for building a questioning mindand a dynamic moral conscience.Piaget emphasizes the importahce of "real and

mutual social experience;' for students, includingself-government. Alternating individual and groupwork helps develop a personality balancedbetween independence and reciprocity.-::- mutualrespect for various points of view,.andharmoni-

Reviewed by R. C. Orem / Grossman, 1973 /$7.50

ToUnderstand 1,---""D_UC_AT_IO----JN,

Is to InventBy Jean .Piaget

This book consists of two papers prepared forUNESCO 15y the eminent S\Yiss psychologist, whohas served as chairman of the UNESCO-affiliatedInternational Bureau of Education and head ofthe Swiss .delegation to UNESCO. "The Right toEducation in tlj.e Present World' is a commentaryon Article' 26( of the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights, the Article affirming the right toeducation adopted by the United Nations GeneralAssembly in 1948. The essay""A StructuralFoundat ion for Tomorrow's Educa tfon" wasdone in1971 for the UNESCO International Commission on the Development of Education. 'Thesetwo pieces, written in the closely reasoned Styletypical of Piaget, can hardly be analfzed in a fewhundred words,for every page' contains insightswoithy of discussion. The present reviewer hastherefore endeavored to illustrate the significanceof the book with a sampling of. the ideas itcontains, including theoretical points and practicalappljcations.Everyindividual,says Piaget, has the dght to

develop normally to hisoT he r fullest potential.Accordingly,. 'society is obligated to. provide the

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. In any ' case, it is more certain that ifanyoQeprominent in the Nazi regime, were 1 to get hisviews published, no matterhow bowdlerized, he

.would .be expected to castIgate nearly everyonewith whom he worked and associated as duncesand n e a r - i m b e c i l e s ~ or as savages without a singleendearing quality; being cast as close to nonhumans,as possible makes it easier to r a t i o n a l i ~ etheir subsequent inhuman treatment. Of course .the chief villain must· always be Hitler, made asgross and barbarous and unreasoning as possible,and capable almost only of bad judgments andirreclaimable mistakes bordering on the idiotic.Speer's books attempt at various places·to af1hfevethis ideal,. but he. foregoes the usual extremes;

ah,out the long-run eonsequences of corporate stat-,ism in America. .

.Need to deal with the FTC on some matter? SeeT o ~ m y Austern at Covington & Burling. I Have a

s p ~ c i n c problelI) \ v i ~ h C A B regulations? See Howard W e s t w ~ o d ' at t h e s a m e ~ ' a d d r , e s s ; , he pri'lcticallycreated the CAB back in the thirties. Need a slight

ly'less prestigious but almost equally effective teamof l ~ a l . k l l t ? ~ \ e d , . g ~ a b l e s ? l ' l " ¥ J \ ~ n o l d & Porter.Needlnenum'oer.one fooo arid drug lawyer in theworld?Go get tough Tommy Corcoran who "walksinto an agency with a meat cleaver·in his briefcase,and chops the lIell out of ~ n y n i n c o m p o o p who getsin his way.;' These hoysplay·for keeps . ..

There are several drawbacks in the volume that /mar its o v e r a l I ~ f f e c t i v e n e s s . 'One is Goulden's ittdiscriminate .lumping of legitimate corporate de-

f ~ n s e with , " o . f f e n s i x ~ . " . c o ~ p ~ f ; ~ ~ e j ~ ~ ~ l 1 : ~ \ n , ~ j ? ~ ~ s ~ .Superiawyers, r . : o f ~ O t ; l J ; s , e , .... f i a n d l . e e , l ~ l 1 e t actIVityadi()itly. A : ~ R ~ , b ; e r p r q b l ~ p t ' is t ~ ~ l , G ~ p J d e ~ m l i v , ~ ! y'sees the "new breed" ofpU;l?hcl,ntere,s,t)awyer mWashington as balancing': 9ff"'tne p r i v a t e - ~ a w y e rpower of the ,corporations, when irireality the newbreed simply champions sornecollectivistcause orclient ("Public Interest"; "Corisumers").

Despite its flaws, the book deserves tobe 'studiedclosely by libertarians. Indeed, no analysis ofAmericanpolitical economy in the last 40 years is complete without reference to the Goulden book.

..

. s h a r p l y : a c c ~ l e r a t e d d ~ r i n g the' 196Q's,s?me,Washillgton'La,wyers directed a counter-revolu..'

tioniInique in world economic history. Theirtllission 'was not t9, d e s ~ o y the New Deal, and itssuccessorreforin acts, Q · t i t t o c o . n q n e r , t h e l l l i . ~ l l d .to leave their structures intact so they could bet r a n ~ f . o r ~ ~ d i t l . t Q \ instruments for the amassing of

, . ' l h 0 ! l 0 p o l i ~ t i C corp()rate power. \, .Few authors have put it more succinctly jlianthis. And.few have gone on'to tell so fascinating an I

account of hO\yit is accomplished.. This o o i j ~ d e t a i l s t h e : a c t i v i t i e s of those "special-.

isis for hire" that perform the "interface" functione x ~ e r t l y - a n d ' f o ~ such l u c r ~ t i v e r e t a i n e r ~ ; , p ~ Q p l e

s l l ~ h asClark Clifforcl ( S ~ p ~ r c l a r k ) ~ t h ~ 7 b ~ s t Q f the'b e ~ t . " a ~ d T l l o ~ a s . G ~ , C o r c o r a n ( T o n V 1 ) y t ~ e , C o r k ) ,who may'know more about regulatorY c()rnmission's",than any man alive.' ,Goulden' b l i e ~ . ~ a s e after case in

wNch the s u p e r l a ~ y e r s w o : r ~ , ~ h ~ r r . "magic"; ()n'the. regulatory . r ~ t e r I ! i n \ m e ~ ~ ~ t ( . ( ) f C o n g r e s ~ ~ , tqe,court . X s ~ ~ ! ' 1 ' ' a , n ~ t l i e r e s t . o f t p ~ : \ \ ~ a s h i n g t o n estab-.

l i s h n l e t l t ~ . A t least'?ne t h i n ~ ~ is :ptecisely dear from'all o{·tlils1:tThesepeople ,are dam:ngood at whatthey are abbut, knowledgeable in the ways andworking of burea,cracy,.and morally unconcerned'

Reviewed byD. A r m e l l t a n 0 I D e n , 1 9 7 ~ / S J ~ 7 5...........

ThisexceUentbook h ~ s ' b ~ e t i ~ i c k i r i g around:{oryears,. but to the best o f iriy knoWledge bas neverbeen reviewed (oreven mentioned) in any libertarian

p u b l i ~ a t i o t t / A n d yet this is a great; oversigllt,for,1 Goufden's 'lSook is 'the'" only'one that d ~ t a i l ~ . ·mecnil1lism by which c o r p o r a t e i n t ~ r ~ s t s a r . e ; ~ Q t e ~ Qhelp shape legislation and' g o v e r n m e n t a l j n s t i t , u ~'tions in their own interest: Thatniechanism-:tl1e,humarilinkage between busfuess . ~ n d . the. t a t e - - : - : - i ~The Superlawyers; alid Gouldetr's'.account, is athoroughly fascinating study of the lawyers.and thelaw firms that do the(didy)work.'Goulden precisely sets 'the theme of hispook inhis profogut:(when he says: ' . ." "; .' '

The Washington Lawyer is anitnportapt {j,gure,in contemporary Americabecause he isofteninterface that holds together the economic partnership of business and government. In the de-cades, following the New Deal, at apace that

.The · S u p ~ : r l a w y e : r s. ..."

By JosepnG-oulden

w ~ n n e ' r ~ ; ; w h i l e . tltteani,syhthetlcgroansof horror,'at the sins of defeated enemies. i : .

S O J n e ~ a r , t s o f l n s i d e l h e Tftlrd Reich are sup-

kinds, in a fairly advanced stage a s e ~ r 1 y a s 1'942, ported by'cdmparlson with Speer's testimony a tbut that a heat-seeking, ground,-to-airmissilewithNuremberg, andsome are not. Speer's admissionsa ceiling of 5\0,000 feet was nearly in an, opera- . concerning forced labor in his latter accounttionalproduction stage: This would have defeated contradict his 1946 position. His fellow Nurem--tl1e Allied bombing c ~ m p a i ~ in .all probability. berg d e f e n d a n t . H a n s . , F r i t s c h e ~ in his, book orr theThe failure(j)f any of these·programs.to, become trials" The Sword itt the ScaiesfI953), observeseffective before war's end is laid at Hitler's door. that the prosecution, mainly Justice Robert ·H.An amazing tribute to Speer's organizational skill Jackson., tried to get Speer to tu rn "st at e' sdespite all the roadblocks thrown,in his way is that evidence'." on this subject against other defen-the high point of armament production, in dants, but that he "was not to be tempted." "O n

Germany steadily went Up ' until':the clos ing' four the contrary," Fritsche went on , t o say, Speermonths of the war, by which time catastrophic "went out of his way to emphasize that mosf of

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tendencies, which ate toward medio.. Littlebylittle,however, Mitchell hascrity.. John is .capable 'of .i.nfusinga b ~ e n eroding. my resistance. She.maytrivialsong l ~ k e " ' S 9 r r y Seems to Be' the . w e ~ t h e r sensitivity like a sandwichH a . r d e s t W o ~ d ' f with enough feeling to ' board, but she does 'have too muchmake it . work, ..... most of .fhe taste , to indulge in the self-pityingtime__andfour alpum sides do add up wallows which mark Janis Ian's work.to a lo t of t i m e ~ h e is merely, dull. )I f it is too muchto expectthat she will, . ., .. ' " . ' . ..," , everloosenup suffic iently to getdownlam I n t h e p r o c e s ~ bemg ''Yon and belt ou t "Dancing in theStreet,"

( ' ) v e r ~ sort of, by;Jom MItchell, .after as Joan Baei has been seen to do atholdIng .out a g a l l ~ s t h ~ r . for .years, Rolling Thunder Revue concerts, shealmo.st f ~ o m . the mghts m 1969 ~ h e n has demonstrated tha t she can singshe f l r s t ~ m p m g e d upon.my conSCIOUS- with considerable power.and passion.ness. I stIll have reservatIons about her. The listless musician ship which'

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r;Tibertarian C C 1 r @ ~ ~ ~ C C l l l u r m e 1 f f i l t ~-..u . '. . By W.alter E. Grinder

• A.promising .new libertaric,ln.professional associati0l1 was formed in Miami in late J anuary, . t he

, L i b ~ r t a r i l l n Medical AssoCiation. Speakers a t , thefou'riding . 'national convention included Robert Meier,NationalDirector of the Libertarian Party, LlewellynRockwell; Jr., Editor of Private Practicemagaziile,and

ex-CongressmanDr.Ron Paul of Texas. Let's hope thedocforscanget themselves together to fight both theencroachments·, of state-socialized medicine and themedical profession's own exclusionist 'union, -theAmerican Medical Association.• Another potentially quite good libertaian profes

sion,al. gr01,lp is the Association for Rational Environmental Alternatives. AREA recently elected themselves

/ a fine new president , W i U ~ m D. BUR. Burt is a brightyoung transportation expert doing his graduate work inboth transportation and management science .at thePolytechnic Institute of New 'York.' My 'mainreservation about AREA is its tendency toward reformism. I have in mind Burt's unfortunate endorsement ofRobert Poole's hyper-reformist book, C;utLocal Taxes.

, 'As libertarians, we must never s imply call for moreefHeiency in govern.ment·services. We must always holdthe banner of liberty high/by calling only Jo r a· true,priv'ate"property, free-market alternative to whatever"public" serviceis being supplied by the government. It

IQoesn't take a great deal of libertarian moxy to knowthat a government contract to a "prIvate" firm is hardlyfree ente'rprise. Rather than adopting Burt's view of thePoole book, I recommend the analysis of it by Tom

Palmer in" his review in th e Jan\lary/February,L-ibertarianReview. We have to.make'sure that libertarian professional organizations '· remain radicallyf r e e - m ~ r k e t rather than falling into thecoopting trap of

reformism. AREA's generaHyexcellentnewsletter isAREA Bul/etin.A regular membership i n AREA is $24;Associate Membership is $12. On matters of member-

-

ship write to Robert Poole, Jr ., 1169Summit Road,Santa Barbara, CA 93108. On Bulletin inquiries write to

William D. Burt,.532 Prospect Ave., No.3, Brooklyn,NY 11215.• The most significant libertarian educational and

organizational exercise .. of. 1976 was the. ,LibertarianPa.-ty presidential campaign of Roger MacBride. Thiscampaign, however, cost a great deal of money. The

Libertarian Party incurred a sizable campaign debt.Before the par ty can go forward to get r eady for t henext congressional campaign and for the 1.280 run forthepres idency , this deb t mus t be paid off . All l ibe r

tarians are encouraged to join the helping to pay theirpart of the debt (really an investment in libertarian'education and' organizing). Please send your checktoday to the Libertarian Party, 1516P Street, Washing-ton,OC 20005. -• Cad .Bode, the perceptive biographer of H.L.

Mencken, is teaching a course this spring on Mencken,his thought, times and influence, called "The MenckenEra."• I 've'been around the. libertarian movement for. a

number of years now, and there is one aspectof themovement that I have always found especiallyrepugnant.This aspect is that oneWhich I ' ll dub as the

"I'm a libertarian-for-profit" syndrome. One variation

on this theme.has been· the almost, total distortion ofLudwig von Mises' business,cycle insightsinto a vulgar"let's-'gehready-fqr-the;;.depression" program. Very fewof the practitioners of this "let's.. c l e a n - u p ~ o n - t h e depression" .philosophy would deign.to walk acrossstreet fo r l iber ty i f it were no t possible to profitmonetarily from some ~ s p e c t of the, business cycle.

"' There iSll,Othing wrong with profit. On the contrary,profit is a positi,ve socioect)Uomic good. No economycan function well without profit , and riQ restrictionsmust ever be placed inthe way of profit. But profit per

$e has nothing whatever to do with.liberty. Liberty is amatter of justice. Individual and politicosocial justice, ifyou will. Beware the beguiling equation of liberty and

profit-in-your-pocket. I f anything, the contrary is farmore likely. Why the foregoing caveat? Well, I've neverbeen fond, of the spate of g o l d ~ i n v e s t m e n t newslettersthat have 'grown up around" the fringes.of Austraineconomics and the libertarian movement, arid for themost· part I would like to disassociate myself fromthes.e disconcerting and usuallymisleading rags.• The re is one "newsletter"which, hoWever, I would

likcto recommend most enthusiasticaUy:World'Market

Per$pective is published by ERC Publishing Co, P.O.Box91491, West Vancouver, B.C., 'Canada.' Jerome,'-F.Smith is th'e driving foree behindERC (EconomicResearch Counsellors), and Smith is a devoted followerboth of Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian- School ofeconomic analysis anf of thelate F.A. "Baldy)' Harper,one of the libertarian movement's foremost analystsand antagonists of the State. Smith and his people at

ERC have beenable to weave together the best in th e

thought of these two libertarian giants and consistently(each month ) -come up with extremely insightfuleconomic analysis of world economic affairs. ' ,• The one ot her "newsletter" that I would recom

Ipend 'i s t he Nat ion al Commit tee ,for Monetary

Reform's Gold Newsletter, NCMR 1524 Hillary Street,New 0lreans, 70118. The quality is not as consistentlyhigh nor is the tone as consistently antistate and pro'"Austrian analysis, but editor James U. Blanchard III isbright, fair, and libertarian. He a lways gives theAustrians their fair share. .• One of libertarianism's truly brightest young stars

is Lawrence H. White. White, although only an.undergra,duate at Harvard University, has already done someoriginal theoretical work in both Austrian economicsand l i b e r t ~ r i a n legal theory (bankruptcy;, in a paper

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delivered at the 1976 LibertarianScholars Conference atthe WaldorfAstoria Hotel). Among his other numberous c r ~ d i t s , he is on the edi torial committee of theCenter for Libertarian Studies Newsletter (500nto be 'renamed In Pursuit ofLiberty», and he is the editor pfthe Harvard Political Review. In a recent is;sue of thelat ter, White had a bri ll ianf edi torial , "On PrivateQuestions and Public Questions". I ho})e the liberal dogooders and future bureaucrats at Harvard follow his

, admonit ion to them to mind their own business. In thesame issue White had a joint review of two importantrevisionist history books that libertarians should bereading: Watershed o fEmpire edited by Leonard P.Liggio and James J. Martin (Ralph Myles Publisher,$10) and Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and the ColdWar by Richard J. Watson (Viking Press, $12).

• The Center fo r Libertarian Studies (200 Par kAvenue South,Suite 911, New York, NY 10003) con- 'tinues to grow, Besides,sponsoring a weekly seminar onAust ri an , ', free-market economics, the Center anbeginning 'a n ongoing" seminar on th,e l iber tarian

heritage.'This spring's calendar includes the followingseminars: February 4, Professor Paul Avrich of Queens

C o l l e ~ e \spoke "New Light s on , B e n j a m i n ~ R.Tucker"; March 11, Professor Camille Cast()rina of St.Johns' University will speak on "Richard Cobden and'the Manchester School of Economics"; April 1, CarlWatner of Baltimore, Md., will speak on "Benjamin R.Tucker and his Periodical Liberty"; May 6" CharlesHamilton, Publisher of Free Life Editions will speak on"Auberon Herbert and Free Life: " Fee: $5 per session;Center Friends and students, $3. The program directoris Professor Joseph R. Peden.

-O n the anarchocapitalist front, a very importantdebate took place in November ,over ' in' England at a

meeting of the Adam Smith 'Club. The debate was'entitled ' ~ M u s t We Abolish the State?" It was betweenProf. ArthurShenfield (Nay)and David Ramsey Steele(Yea).Shenfield 'is a well-known and distinguishedadvocate of the classical-liberal free market. Steele, ananarcho-capitalist-and a former Marxist-is now athorough Misesian convert whose Ph.D. dissertation atthe Universityof Hull is a full-fledged Austrian criticofMarxist economics . For more on the outcome of thedebate, write to ChrisR; Tame, Secretary, c/o Institutefor Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, Westminis:ter, London S.W. 1, England.

• The for thcoming changeover in ownership "andeditorial control of Libertarian Review is anotherindication of the growth of the libertarian movement.The first thing that must be pointed'out is,that RobertD.Kephart nas for the pastseveral years "kept thiscruCially important educational vehicle alive out of hisown pockets. The whole movement owes Bob a tre

mendous debtofgrati tude. Bob has , however , beenextremely busyof late and has been unable to devote as

much ,attention ashe would have liked to LR. both thet ime and financial drain simply were too much. KarlPflock,.LR editor for the past three years, could devoteonly part of his time to the m a g a z i n ~ . Fortunately, abuyer was found who could support the magazinefinancially"and hire the full -time talent that such aperiodical needs. Roy A. Childs will be coming back asfull-time editor. Roy, as many of you know, is a pasteditor of LR and one of the most knowledgeable mindson both· scholarly and organizational matters in thelibertarian movement. Welcome back, Roy! Theoperations of LR will be moving up to" the Big Apple,whereCharlesHamilton, publisher of Free Life Eitions,will serve as publisher. LR will become' a monthlymagazine again beginning in September. Good luck toboth Roy and Chuck!

• The Austrian Economics resurgence continues togrow. The most exciting news comes fromttie University of C h i c a g o ' w h e r e l i b e r t a r i a n / A u ~ t r i a h .actiyistDavid Theroux has been instrumental in arranging a, series of seminars on var ious aspects of Austrianthought to be cosporisoredby the U'niversity()f ChidtgoGraduate SchooFof Busiiiess aild the William 'KochFoundation. The schedule is as .follows: January '18,Israel M.Kirzner of New York University spoke on"Market Processvs. Market Equilibrium:'ThePtoblemof Sodal Coordination"; February 1,Mario Rizzo ofNew YorkUniversityspoke On "Praxeology and Econ;.ometrics: A Critique of Positivist Econornics";February 15, Gerald P. O'Driscoll, J r. , o f Iowa StateUniversity spoke on "Stagflation, The KeynesianMonetarist Quagmire: The Hayekian Perspective' ';March 1, Ludwig M. Lachmann ofNew York'Univeisity spoke on "The Inadequacy of Macro-Formalism:A Subjectivist Critique of Capital Theories"; April 5,Murray N. Rothbard speaks on "Preference, Profit 'andthe 'Public Sector': A Critique of Welfare EconomicsandMonopoly Theory". Later inthe spring term, F. A. '

Hayek will speak'on recent developments in economictheory. '• More on Austrianism: At ClaremontCollege, May

26'-29,therewillbea s y ~ p o s i u m on the thoughtof Carl,Menger,Speakerswill include F. A. Hayek, Gerald·P.O'Driscoll and others .. . It seems that a ' sessiondevoted to the thought of Carl Menger may' also be

taking place at the annual meeting of AtlanticEconomic Society inWashington, D.C., October 12-15.Morelateron this one ; . . At the annual meeting of the~ u b l i c ChoiceSociety at theBraniff PlaceHotel in N e w ~Orleans, March 10-12, a very important session oneconomic knowledge, information and expectationswillbe'chaired by Professors Richard Wagner· and RobertStaaf of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. They will bedelivering a quasi-Austrian paper and there will also bea paper given by Israel Kirzner with comments byGerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr . . . . . Recommended is an articleby William Jaffe, "Menger, Jevons and Walras DeHomogonized," in Econpmic Inquiry December 1976.This piece shows concll1sively the distinctiveness of thethree neo,-classical giants. The article demonstrates thateachmade a unique contribution. It begins the processof disentangling the work of each. It clearly givessupport to thosewho see a distinctively Austrian contribution. The article is sur})risingly approving of Menger,especially given that it is written by Walras' biographerand translator. A "must" for those interested inAustrianism .. .

• Anumber of good things areha})pening among thegrowing number ~ o f " libertarian-oriented philosophersacrosS the country..Professors Charles King and TiborMachan are directing a Liberty Fund conference atCalifornia's Pomona College, "Reason, Values; andPolitical Principles." Most Liberty Fund conferencesare byirivit'ation only, but for information about how

things" went, write to Prof. King, Depar tment ofPhilosophy, Pomona College. .

• The', Center fo r Liberta rian Studies, and theAustriallInstitute (an Austrian cultural exchange institute)will c o ~ p o n s o ! a talk by Professor Ludwig M.

Lachmann on ,','The Resurgence of Austrian Economics". rtwill be held a t the Austrian Institute '(11 East52ild St. , New York City) a t 1:30 p.m., Wednesday,March 16. Thetalk is free and open to the public. Afterthe talk, there will be reception where participants canmeet Professor Lachmann and many other of the peopleassociated with the Center for Liber tarian Studies. _

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