Historian John Lukacs (1924-2019)Friday Roundup, September 13th
I've made several posts the past few weeks to Liberty Fund's upcoming Constitution Day Symposium on federalism. Regarding this important topic, our Online Library of Liberty has the deepest bench of online resources for further reading and study. Enjoy! So the current Liberty Law Talk is a discussion with Eric Mack on Friedrich Hayek's great trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. If you haven't yet waded into all three volumes, then this podcast is a great introduction. For our feature review essay this week, Richard Gamble evaluates John Lukacs' latest effort, History and the Human Condition. Gamble observes that Lukacs' work demands humility…
John Lukacs’ Pursuit of Truth
I must acknowledge at the outset of this review that it will not be an "objective" assessment of John Lukacs's latest book. It cannot be. My debt to him is too great. Given his emphasis on "personal" knowledge over against what he sees as the outmoded modern categories of "objective" and "subjective," Professor Lukacs will not mind my dispensing with the forms of such a review. Indeed, he will welcome such a departure from these conventions. Whether other readers will be pleased or annoyed is another matter. In the interests of full disclosure, as they say, there are very good reasons--reasons…
