I’m cleaning out various “I write things” notes and stubs from my “drafts” folder and “WriteMe” list. These might not be recent reads. J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. I read this to my younger son last Fall. I’m not a Tolkien scholar or a Beowulf scholar, but this was a very interesting read […]
I Read Things: Public Choice, Racism, and Political Capitalism
Anton D. Lowenberg and William H. Kaempfer, The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis. This is an important study that I’m embarrassed to say I wasn’t familiar with it until recently. Randall G. Holcombe, Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power is Made and Maintained. Political capitalism, Holcombe argues, is […]