In this issue…

Tammany Hall’s indecorous reputation as a corrupt graft machine is (seemingly) written in stone. But should it be? A closer look at what really happened in the notorious halls of Tammany reveals a deeper, more complicated, and more inspiring story than the one we’ve been told which touches on one of the most hot-button issues of our time—immigration.

Neither a “build the wall” dogmatist nor an “open borders” zealot, Martin Van Buren viewed immigration as one battle in a struggle between the common man and the rent-seeking financial elite. New immigrants, Van Buren believed, must be transformed into patriots, effective political activists, and classical liberals, as explained in this issue’s cover article “Old Kinderhook and Civic Integration in America,” by Garion Frankel.

The issue also features articles on how the government uses inflation to expand its power, the 1906 Meat Inspection Acts, sweatshop wages, the politics of today’s philosophy departments, 18 book reviews, and more! If you read just one academic journal this summer, this is the one to read.

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Articles

Old Kinderhook and Civic Integration in America *

By Garion Frankel

Playing the Defense: The Beef Trust, Cronyism, and the 1891 and 1906 Meat Inspection Acts

By Patrick Newman

No Sweat? Living Standards and Sweatshop Wages in Developing Countries

By Towhid Mahmood, Benjamin Powell

Better Spent Elsewhere: Why Philosophy Should Be Funded Less

By Jimmy Alfonso Licon

Abortion and Public Policy

By Steven E. Landsburg

Abortion and Public Policy: A Defense of “Naive” Rawlsianism

By Nicholas Colgrove

Tocqueville, Hayek, and American Intellectual Conservatism

By Jason R. Jividen

James Gwartney: A Legacy of Economic Freedom, Education, and Mentorship

By Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, Joseph P. Calhoun

Moderation in the Pursuit of Justice Is a Virtue: Nicholas Rescher’s Quest for a Good Society

By David Gordon

Reflections

The Economic Function of Inflation Is to Lower the Real Value of Wealth Assets Sufficiently to Pay for the Government’s Excess Spending Monetized by the Federal Reserve *

By Vernon L. Smith

Research Diversity, Disruptive Science, and Scientific Consensus

By Robert Gmeiner

Restoring Free Trade and Investment in a Global Trading System

By William A. Owens, Barry W. Poulson

The Dark Sides of Transparency *

By Jimmy Alfonso Licon

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