October 25, 2004

HISTORIAN GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB has a new one -- The Roads to Modernity : The British, French, and American Enlightenments. Here's a NY Times review. Himmelfarb mines the classic contrast between the human order respecting British enlightenment and rationalistic French enlightenment -- a distinction made most influentially by Friedrich Hayek in his The Constitution of Liberty. (via Crooked Timber). Posted by Greg Ransom