The Editors welcome book review suggestions not on the list below (including suggestions by authors and publishers). We will make a good faith effort to find a reviewer for the book you suggest, but cannot guarantee that every book suggested to us will in fact be reviewed. We strongly prefer that reviews run within two or three years (four at the most) of the book’s publication date. Given the backlog of material we currently have, reviews of the books listed below will have to run in 2014 or thereafter. Books published in 2010 will be deleted from our list sometime this year, and books published in 2011 will be deleted in late 2012 or 2013.

Please address all book review correspondence to reasonpapers@gmail.com, with the phrase “book review” in the subject line. Note that all review assignments are at the Editors’ discretion.

For more detailed information on writing a book review for Reason Papers, consult the Book Review/Review Essay section of our Submissions page.

Economics/Business
Hardy Bouillon, Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics (Routledge, 2011).
Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon (Times Books, 2011).
Mark Pennington, Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (Edward Elgar, 2011).

History (all)
H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Anchor, 2011).
H.G. Callaway, Memories and Portraits: Explorations in American Thought (Cambridge Scholars, 2010).
Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World (Public Affairs, 2012).
Bernard Lewis with Buntzie Ellis Churchill, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian (Viking, 2012).
Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI (Random House, 2012).

Legal Studies
David Mayer, Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right (Cato Institute, 2011).
William Shawcross, Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (Public Affairs, 2012).
William P. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011).
Norma Thompson, Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment (Paul Dry Books, 2011).
Adam Winkler, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America (Norton, 2011).

Literature (all languages)
Robert McParland, Charles Dickens’s American Audience (Lexington, 2010).

Near East/Islamic Studies/Jewish Studies
Mohammad Azadpur, Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy (SUNY, 2011).
Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket, 2011).
Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012).
Roane Carey ed., The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (Verso, 2011).
Patricia Crone et al, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton, 2012).
Michael Curtis, Should Israel Exist? (Balfour, 2012).
Akel Isma’il Kahera, Reading the Islamic City: Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment (Lexington, 2011).

Political Science: American Politics (and related social science)
Thomas B. Edsall, The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics (Doubleday, 2012).
Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Crown Forum, 2012). Our strong preference is for a reviewer with a documented track record of published work in the field.
Richard Arum and Josipa Roska, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago, 2010). Our strong preference is for a review essay of this book in the neighborhood of 5,000 words that discusses both the book and its critical reception.

Political Science: International Relations/Security Studies/Strategic Studies
Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus, Can Intervention Work? (Amnesty International Global Ethics Series), (Norton, 2011).
Ali Soufan and Daniel Freeman, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (Norton, 2011).
Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers (Public Affairs, 2011).

Political Science: Theory
Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century (Penguin, 2012).
Jacob T. Levy and Iris Marion Young ed., Colonialism and Its Legacies (Lexington, 2011).
Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012).
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (Smiley Books, 2012).

Philosophy: General and History of
Paul Blackledge, Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution (SUNY, 2012).
Walter Nicorski ed., Cicero’s Practical Philosophy (Notre Dame, 2012).
Martha Nussbaum, Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 (Oxford 2012).
C.D.C. Reeve, Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard, 2012).

Philosophy: Metaphysics and Action Theory
Eric Marcus, Rational Causation (Harvard, 2012).
James Swindal, Action and Existence: A Case for Agent Causation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Philosophy: Epistemology
Scott F. Aikin, Epistemology and the Regress Problem (Routledge, 2010).
Herman Cappelen, Philosophy without Intuitions (Oxford, 2012). 
Alva Noe, Varieties of Presence (Harvard, 2012).

Philosophy: Ethics
Rebecca Dresser, Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer (Oxford, 2012).
Julia Driver, Consequentialism (Routledge, 2012).
Ishtiyaque Haji, Reason’s Debt to Freedom: Normative Appraisals, Reasons and Free Will (Oxford, 2012).
Jeffrie G. Murphy, Punishment and the Moral Emotions: Essays in Law, Morality, and Religion (Oxford, 2012).
Martha Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Harvard, 2011).
Joseph Raz, From Normativity to Responsibility (Oxford, 2012).
David C. Rose, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior (Oxford, 2011).

Philosophy: Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law
Fritz Allhoff, Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture (Chicago, 2012).
Ann Cudd & Nancy Holmstren, Capitalism: For and Against, A Feminist Debate (Cambridge, 2011).
F.M. Kamm, The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (Oxford, 2012).
Tamara Metz, Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for their Divorce (Princeton, 2010).
Douglas B. Rasmussen, Aeon J. Skoble, and Douglas J. Den Uyl, Reality, Reason, and Rights: Essays in Honor of Tibor R. Machan (Lexington, 2011).

This page last revised May 15, 2012 (IK)

Fall 2014 Symposium:  The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.  

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined?  How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency?  How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations? 

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

Forthcoming Symposia at Reason Papers

NOW ONLINE: Fall 2011: Rand and Hayek on Cognition and Trade

Contributors include Jennifer Baker (The College of Charleston), and David Kelley (The Atlas Society).

Spring 2012: Imagining Better: Philosophical Issues in Harry Potter 

Contributors to include Gregory Bassham (King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust (Stetson University), Carrie-Ann Biondi (Marymount Manhattan College), Joel Hunter (Arizona State University), Shawn Klein (Rockford College), Anna McFarlane (University of St. Andrews, Glasgow), Jennifer Mogg and Kendra Tully (Bridgewater State University), Heidi Nielson (AmeriCorp*VISTA, Founder and Managing Editor, merj.org), Travis Prinzi (Founder, Thehogshead.org), Patrick Shade (Rhodes College), and Anne Collins Smith and Owen Smith (Stephen F. Austin State University).

Fall 2012:  Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth? (Harvard University Press, 2011)

Contributors to include Fahmi Abboushi (Felician College), Donna Robinson Divine (Smith College), Irfan Khawaja (Felician College), Issam Nassar (Illinois State University), Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College), and Said Zeedani (Al Quds University), with a response by Sari Nusseibeh (Al Quds University, Jerusalem).

Spring 2013: Perspectives on Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Contributors to include Bryan Caplan (George Mason University), Joshua Hall (Beloit College), Randall Holcombe (Florida State University), Daniel Klein (George Mason University), and Ezequiel Spector (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), with a response by Jason Brennan (Georgetown University). 

Fall 2013:  Waco: Twenty Years Later

Contributors to include Jayne Seminare Docherty (Eastern Mennonite University, author of Learning Lessons from Waco: When the Parties Bring their Gods to the Negotiation Table), David Kopel and Paul Blackman (The Independence Institute; authors of No More Wacos: What’s Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It), Kenneth G. C. Newport (Liverpool Hope University, UK; author of The Branch Davidians of Waco: The History and Beliefs of an Apocalyptic Sect), Dick Reavis (North Carolina State University; author of The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation),  and others.