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Volume 26  Number 1  •  Summer 2021
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Articles
Populism, Self-Government, and Liberty
By Michael C. Munger
The Impossibility of Populism
By Pierre Lemieux
Populism: Promises and Problems
By Randall G. Holcombe
American Populism in the Early Twenty-First Century: Constitutional Resistance to the New Class
By Bruce P. Frohnen
Putting Populism in Its Place
By John J. Thrasher IV
The Constituent Power as a Remedy for the Administrative State
By William J. Watkins, Jr.
Republics Large and Small
By Richard P. Adelstein
Moral Consensus and Antiestablishment Politics
By Johan Wennström
American Institutional Exceptionalism and the Trump Presidency
By Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ilia Murtazashvili, Tymofiy Mylovanov
The Prospects of Populism
By Jeffrey M. Carroll
Walter E. Williams: Scholar, Teacher, and Public Intellectual
By Abigail R. Hall
The Cause of the Great Depression: The Decision to Resume the Gold Standard on Prewar Terms
By Sandeep Mazumder, John H. Wood

Reflections
On Editorial Varnish
By Nicholas Rescher

Book Reviews
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
By Daren Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Reviewed by Claudia Williamson Kramer
Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World
By Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman
Reviewed by Julia R. Norgaard
Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy
By Mary L. Hirschfeld
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Adapting to Climate Change: Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future; Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
By William D. Nordhaus
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Why It’s OK to Want to be Rich
By Jason Brennan
Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne
Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine: The True Cost of the Military
By Ned Dobos
Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne
The Big Government We Love to Hate: Exploring the Roots of Political Malaise
By James L. Payne
Reviewed by Gary M. Galles
A Declaration and Constitution for a Free Society: Making the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution Fully Consistent with the Protection of Individual Rights
By Brian P. Simpson
Reviewed by Randall G. Holcombe
1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
By Peter Wood
Reviewed by Andrew Juchno
Taxation in Utopia: Required Sacrifice and the General Welfare
By Donald Morris
Reviewed by Otto Lehto
A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the U.S. Federal Debt Crisis
Edited by John Merrifield and Barry Poulson
Reviewed by Jody W. Lipford
School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom
Edited by Corey A. DeAngelis and Neal P. McCluskey
Reviewed by Robert Maranto
Reinventing Racism; American Awakening; That Is Not Who We Are!; The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump; Democracy against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
By Douglas Axe, William M. Briggs, and Jay W. Richards
Reviewed by Jon Murphy
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
By Catherine Liu
Reviewed by D. Eric Schansberg
Poverty and Dependency: America, 1950s to the Present
By John Macnicol
Reviewed by D. Eric Schansberg
Between the State and the Schoolhouse: Understanding the Failure of Common Core
By Tom Loveless
Reviewed by Sandra Stotsky
Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement
By Jonathan Anomaly
Reviewed by James Stacey Taylor
Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
By Ilya Somin
Reviewed by Matthew E. Brown
Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions
By Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powell
Reviewed by Joshua K. Bedi
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
By John Fabian Witt
Reviewed by Byron B. Carson III



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