Barbara Branden's Reviews

Barbara Branden's Reviews

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer (Summer 1969, Academic Associates Book News #1)

The Art of Making Sense by Lionel Ruby (Fall 1969, AABN #2)

The Greek Experience by C. M. Bowra (Holiday 1969, AABN #3)

Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt (Holiday 1969, AABN #3)



Nathaniel Branden's Reviews

Nathaniel Branden Reviews

The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler (Summer 1969, Academic Associates' Book News #1)

The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler (Fall 1969, AABN #2)

The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes by Mortimer J. Adler (Holiday 1969, AABN #3)

Atheism: The Case against God by George H. Smith (February 1973, AABN #10)

Therapist by Ellen Plasil (Summer, 1987, Free Inquiry)

Roger Bissell's Reviews

Can "Mentalist Monism" Save Mind and Morality from the Mechanistic Materialists? – Roger Sperry, Science and Moral Priority Merging Mind, Brain, and Human Values

Searle on Intentionality – John R. Searle, Intentionality

Review of Fred Dretske's Naturalizing the Mind

Review of Benny Shanon's The Representational and the Presentational

How Steven Pinker's Mind Works – Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

Attending to Mind Itself – Edward Pols, Mind Regained

Beyond Compatibilism? – Robert Kane, The Significance of Free Will

Summary and comments – George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh (Chapter 8, "Metaphor and Truth," only – submitted to MIND internet discussion group on 10/21/99)

Review – Dean L. Overman, A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization

To Catch a Thief: an Essay in Epistemological Crime-Busting (Critical analysis of article on “liar’s paradox”) – Ronn Neff, “The Liar is a Thief”

Review of Chris M. Sciabarra's Ayn Rand: the Russian Radical

What Is the "New Right"? (Critical analysis of article) – Gene Bryant, “Entanglement by the New Right”




Roy Childs Jr.'s Reviews

Basic Principles of Objectivism by Nathaniel Branden - Review

The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden - Review

Libertarianism by John Hospers - Review

Reason and Belief by Brand Blanshard - Review

The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America by Leonard Peikoff - Review

Free to Choose by Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman - Review

Capital and Interest (Three volumes in one) by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk - Review

The Market for Liberty by Linda Tannehill & Morris Tannehill - Review

The Libertarian Idea by Jan Narveson - Review

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Second edition) by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, & Harry Binswanger - Review

The Early Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand - Review

Objectivism: the Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff - Review

The Disowned Self by Nathaniel Branden - Review



John Hospers' Reviews

Action and Purpose by Richard Taylor (Academic Associates’ Book News # 2, Fall 1969)

The World Since 1939: a History by Carroll Quigley and None Dare Call it Conspiracy by Gary Allen (Books for Libertarians, Vol. III, No. 6, June 1974)

What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland, Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang, The Enjoyment of Music by Joseph Machlis (Books for Libertarians, Vol. III, No. 7, July 1974)

The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Books for Libertarians, Vol. III, No. 9, September 1974)

The Man versus the State by Herbert Spencer (Libertarian Review, Vol. IV, No. 7, July 1975)

Reason and Belief by Brand Blanshard (Libertarian Review, Vol. V, No. 5, September-October 1976)


Atlas Shrugged: A Twentieth Anniversary Tribute, “a supreme achievement, guaranteed of immortality” (Libertarian Review, Vol. VI, No. 6, October 1977)



Michael Stuart Kelly Reviews

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey


Steve Reed Reviews

My Years with Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden


George Reisman Reviews

Ayn Rand Answers



Jeff Riggenbach's Reviews

Philosophy in a New Key by Susanne K. Langer - Review

Feeling and Form by Susanne K. Langer - Review, comments by John Hospers and rejoinder by Riggenbach


Fred Seddon's Reviews

Review of "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature"

Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living, edited by Robert Mayhew



Henry Veatch's Reviews

Reason and Analysis by Brand Blanshard

Aristotle, Human Rights, and Classical Liberal Ethical Theory