TELOSlinks: Recommended Reading

Gary Gutting responds to Bertrand Russell and Adam Smith on work, leisure, and value for The Stone.

Timothy Spangler reviews Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century and Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government for the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Many of the same post-War thinkers are referenced, and in many ways the two books complement each other—one a large dense and highly ornamented Wagner opera, the other a memorable Broadway show with tunes you can hum during the cab ride home.”

Anthony Gottlieb explores evolutionary psychology’s “Just So Stories” for the New Yorker.

Dave Maier asks, “What kind of a perspectivist is Nietzsche?” at 3 Quarks Daily.

Harvey C. Mansfield surveys what some major works of political philosophy have to say about elections for Defining Ideas.

Russell A. Berman at the London School of Economics’s European Politics and Policy blog on how anti-Americanism in Europe has fallen during the Obama administration, but the potential remains for its resurgence.