There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

Schmitt came to prominence in the failing German Weimar Republic of the 1920s and then to notoriety after supporting and assisting the rising Nazi dictatorship. It is his version of history that is ...

Liberalism’s Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism, by Vikash Yadav (University of Chicago Press, 288 pp., $35) According to one of Italo Calvino’s 14 definitions, “a classic is a book ...

Yadav, professor of international relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, debuts with a vigorous reappraisal of 20th-century economist Friedrich Hayek in light of today’s increasing ...