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COLLECTED WRITINGS OF DWIGHT D. MURPHEY
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This "home page" includes a Table of Publications listing Murphey's work by the published title. The Table of Publications is divided, respectively, into sections for (a) books, (b) monographs, (c) published articles, (d) book reviews, (e) reviews by others, (f) miscellaneous other published work, (g) correspondence, and (h) unpublished work. Within each category, the items will be listed with the most recent appearing first.
The Index will be extremely helpful in finding items by name and subject. The user can go to it by hyperlink (see below). The items are numbered as an aid to looking them up by the Index. An example of the numbering: A3 would be article #3; B7 would be book #7.
In the Table of Publications, the items that have already been placed on this Web site are marked with an asterisk, to save you time clicking on what you think will be a hyperlink only to find that the particular site is "under construction." (Actually, hyperlinks are indicated in other ways, too; but it seems the asterisk will be helpful.) Clicking on the hyperlink for a book title will lead you to the book's table of contents. Within that table of contents, the chapters that presently appear on this site will themselves be indicated with an asterisk.
Because there is a large volume of work going back over half a century, there has been an on-going process of adding additional material to this site. By June 2007, all of Murphey's written material has been included (with such minor exceptions as may sometime be discovered). Material written later will be added as time passes. All items in the Table of Publications may also be read in the Archives of the Wichita State University library or obtained from the author, whose address is Dwight D. Murphey, 2412 Hathway Circle, Wichita, KS 67226. The Web site was first established in 2002.
Murphey invites comments and discussion. He may be contacted at dwightmurphey@sbcglobal.net
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Information
about Dwight D. Murphey
There were two major formative influences in Dwight D. Murphey's intellectual life. The first was the three years he lived in Mexico starting when he was eight years old; his yearning to be home gave him a life-long love of the United States and of the ideals he identified with it. The second was when, soon out of high school, he came to realize that many of the ideas people hold are products of ideology and creed, slavishly repeated and poorly supported by facts. He became devoted to honest inquiry and a willingness to question the shibboleths of his time. This questioning has been considerable in light of the ideals that he has held up against the shibboleths, the latter of which have come primarily (but not exclusively) from the Left..
Murphey was born in Tucson, Arizona, on June 14, 1934. He lived in Miami, Florida, before the three years in Mexico, and then lived in Denver, Colorado, for the rest of his childhood. He took his pre-law in political science at the University of Colorado between 1951 and 1954, served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for two years between 1954 and 1956, then was a special student under Ludwig von Mises in the Graduate School of Business at New York University during the 1956-7 school year before attending the University of Denver College of Law. After he graduated from law school in 1959, he practiced with a large firm in Denver for six years and then went to work for a small firm in Colorado Springs for two years to run for District Judge. He lost the 1966 race for the judgeship in Colorado Springs and joined the faculty at Wichita State University in 1967, teaching business law. He retired from the faculty after 36 years at the end of June, 2003. By the turn of the century, he had written classical liberal (or, as he prefers, "neo-classical liberal") philosophy and historical analysis for more than fifty years. That work predominates in what is reproduced here.
The review of Murphey's book Liberalism in Contemporary America presents a capsule summary of what was involved in his four-book project that started with Understanding the Modern Predicament, and anyone wanting to know his intellectual development during the 1970s and '80s will be well advised to read that review. It appears here as item O5, or can be reached by this link.
During the 1990s and since, he has found it necessary to redirect many of his conclusions about social and economic issues, not because his principles or values have changed, but because circumstances have become so radically transformed. Here is what he said in an e-mail to a friend in early 2007:
"I imagine you and I are pretty much what we've always been in our fundamental principles, but I know that at least in my case I see that the world has changed so much that I have had to apply those principles to the new circumstances, arriving at surprisingly different results.
"Twenty years ago, the defense of free civilization required standing up to the spread of Communism. This entailed a great deal of international involvement. With the fall of the Soviet Union, though, I wasn't able to carry this over into a continued belief in the efficacy of American worldwide intervention in the name of correcting the great many perceived ills of the world. The idea that our security requires 'making the world right' is very different from the pre-1991 need to defeat Communism.
"Even the free market looks very different to me, in the context of globalism, than it did earlier. The free market that I so strongly advocated sustained a broad middle class, which in turn served as the foundation for a decent society and an acceptable political system. But when enhanced communication, inexpensive transportation and global finance put American workers into direct competition with the world's subsistence-level billions, and at the same time hollowed-out American manufacturing, the much-changed 'market' became the enemy of those of us who, as part of our conservatism, care deeply about the fate of our own country and people. There was always a contradiction between free-market universalism (as found in Ricardo's law of comparative costs) and national loyalties, but the two contradictories were able to get along well together so long as the market served the American people well.
"On the immigration issue, I had no difficulty, years ago, adopting a libertarian (in my case, classical liberal) position, since I perceived no threat from it. It has only been since 1965, with the demographic invasion from the Third World, that I see the potential that that immigration holds for the destruction of the America (and Europe) I've known. Here again, the classical liberal philosophical position and my love of country seemed compatible under one set of circumstances, but came to be divergent.
"It may seem that I have moved away from my earlier classical liberalism and toward a less enlightened nationalism. But I don't see it that way. I see no contradiction between the continued existence of the United States (even in its present far-from-perfect form) and the long-term influence of classically liberal ideals. If the United States is transformed into something very different from what it has been historically, the world will have lost its leading light."
As to his personal life, Murphey married Virginia Stewart on September 14, 1963, and they have two children: Victoria Lee Piercey and Bradley Allen Murphey. Victoria is married to William Piercey and they have two children: Conor William Piercey and Logan Michael Piercey. Bradley is married to Ann (Hutchison) Murphey, and as yet they have no children. Virginia and Dwight celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary on September 14, 2007.
TABLE OF PUBLICATIONS
A list of the categories that follow here:
books
monographs
published articles
book reviews
reviews by others
miscellaneous other published work
correspondence
unpublished work
INDEX BY NAME AND SUBJECT
Click here as hyperlink to Index by Name and Subject
BOOKS
B10. *Understanding the United States: Illusions that Guide Contemporary America (Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies Monograph No. 30, 2004.)
B5a. *The Von Steuben Affair (a satire on Iran-Contra and other assorted insanities; written in 1987 and published for the first time to this web site). At the end of the satire, a brief article is appended defending the Reagan administration concerning Iran-Contra.
B5. Liberal Thought in Modern America (Washington: University Press of America, 1987). See Liberalism in Contemporary America (B6 here), which is an updated version of this book..
B4. *Socialist Thought (Washington: University Press of America, 1984).
B3. *Understanding the Modern Predicament (Washington: University Press of America, 1982), 390 pages.
B1. *Emergent Man (self-published, Denver, Colorado, 1962), 387 pages.
MONOGRAPHS
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
A97. *Book Review Article, "Urging Uplift for American Blacks: Two Recent Books--a Critique," scheduled to be published in the Fall 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
A96. *"Do Something About Darfur": A Review of the Complexities," published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 229-264.
A95. *Robotics: A Route to the Survival of the Advanced Societies?, published in the Winter 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 397-420.
A94. *Book Review Article, "George Tenet's C.I.A. Memoir: Curious and Provocative," published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 317-325..
A92. *"If Past is Prologue: Americans' Future 'Guilt' About Today's Use of Low-Pay Immigrant Labor," published in the Fall 2006 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, 339-365.
A91. *Book Review Article, "Seeing Africa Clearly," about Martin Meredith's The Fate of Africa, published in the Summer 2006 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 213-224.
A90. *Introduction to Frank Ellis' "Marxism, Multiculturalism, and Free Speech," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies Monograph No. 31 (Washington, D.C.: Council for Social and Economic Studies, 2006), pp. 1-5. This piece also appeared as an article in the British journal of opinion "Right Now!," June 2006 issue, pp. 16-17.
A89. *Book Review Article, "Amy Chua's World on Fire: Ethnic Hatreds and Their Implications for the United States," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 2005, pp. 371-381.
A85. *"Conceptual Issues In Prohibiting 'Hate Speech,'" The Mankind Quarterly, Spring 2003, pp. 335-352.
A84. *“The Post-Cold War American Interventions into Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Winter 2000, pp. 489-510. This was also published in The St. Croix Review, with Part I being in the October 2001 issue and Part II in the December 2001 issue.
A78. *“Dispatches from America: Dwight D. Murphey Wonders What Can be Learnt from the Clinton Affair,” British journal of opinion RightNOW, January/March 1999, p. 24.
A75. "Revolution on the Horizon," The St. Croix Review, August 1998, pp. 6-16 (reprint of the article "A Revolution in Progress.")
A74. "A Revolution in Progress: Today's Proliferating Science and Technology," The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 1998, pp. 75-92. This is a combination of Chapters 2 and 3 of Murphey's book The Emerging Crisis of Economic Displacement, and so won't be put on this Web site since the material can be read in that book.
A70. *"The Deviant Elite that Mocks American Democracy," Conservative Review, May/June 1997, pp. 10-14.
A69. *"'Moderation' Can't Save America," Conservative Review, Mar/Apr 1997, pp. 8-12.
A68. *"The Warp-Speed Transformation of the World Economy: A Discussion of Ten (of the Many) Recent Books," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 1996, pp. 307-342.
A67. *"'Global Warming': A Lysenko-Like Challenge to the World Scientific Community," Conservative Review, July/August 1996, pp. 7-16.
A65. "Theories of Capitalistic Exploitation: Their Context and Validity," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 1996, pp. 77-100. This is not hyperlinked because it is a reprint of Chapter 12 in Murphey's book on socialist thought. See that chapter, which now has certain "Notes from 2003" interjected.
A64. *"Hiroshima in Historical Context," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Winter 1995, pp. 445-466.
A59. "Issues in American History: Lynching in Perspective," Conservative Review, July/August 1995, pp. 8-15. Is a major excerpt from my legal-studies monograph on the same subject. It is not being hyperlinked, since it appears in that monograph.
A58. “Uncontrolled Immigration’s Threat to American Identity,” The St. Croix Review, June 1995. This is not being hyperlinked; see Article 55 for the more complete essay.
A56. "A Principled Discussion of the Taboo Against Homosexuality," Conservative Review, March/April 1995, 27-29. See Article 53 here.
A49. *"Issues in the American Cultural War: Kent State, May 1-5, 1970," Conservative Review, March/April 1993. This is not being included here, because (hyperlink:) an extended version appeared as "Kent State Revisited," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 1993, pp. 235-255. Or see the chapter on this same subject in the book "Dispossessing the American Indian--And Other Issues in American History."
A48. *"Issues in the American Cultural War: The World War II Relocation of the Japanese-Americans," Conservative Review, January/February 1993, pp. 4-7. An extended version appeared in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 1993, pp. 93-117. See the chapter on this same subject in the book "Dispossessing the American Indian--And Other Issues in American History."
A46. *"Lest We Forget (or Never Really Knew): The 60th Anniversary of Soviet Communism's Deliberate Murder of Millions by Starvation," Conservative Review, December 1992, pp. 38-44.
A44. *"Modern Liberalism and the Business Corporation," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 1992, pp. 183-202. Reprint of chapter from my book on liberalism.
A43. *"The Los Angeles Riots: The Deeper Meanings," Conservative Review, June 1992, pp. 8-9.
A41. *Modern Liberalism's Emphasis on Social Change," Conservative Review, April 1992, pp. 42-47. Reprint of chapter from my book on liberal thought.
A40. *"Feminism and Rape," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 1992, pp. 13-27.
A38. *"The Historic Dispossession of the American Indian: Did It Violate Our Ideals?," Conservative Review, December 1991, pp.31-35. Extended version appeared in Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 1991, pp. 347-368.
A37. *"'Political Correctness,': A Third Window into American Liberalism's Otherwise Latent Affinity for Totalitarianism," Conservative Review, August 1991, pp. 30-34.
A36. *"For the Incorruptible Scholar, It's the Best of Times and the Worst of Times," Conservative Review, October 1991, pp.28-32. Based on a paper presented to the annual meeting of University Professors for Academic Order (UPAO) in Washington, D.C., in early 1991.
A35. *"Multiculturalism: Its Implications for a Free Society," Conservative Review, June 1991, pp. 32-35.
A34. *”The Gulf War's (Intolerable) 'New Journalism,'" Conservative Review, April 1991, pp. 27-32.
A33. *"Liberalism's' Devaluation of Mainstream Values: A Key Factor in Understanding American History, 1820-1991," Tamkang Journal of American Studies, April_1991.
A32. *"Martin Luther King, Jr.: Time for a Sobering Reassessment," Conservative Review, February 1991.
A30. *"How Committed Are We, Really, to Science?," Conservative Review, November 1990.
A27. *"American Liberalism in Yet Another Yearning Phase," Conservative Review, August 1990, pp. 26, 27 and 29.
A26. *"American Social Science: It is Time It Emerged From the Shadow of the German Historical School," VOX (academic publication of University Professors for Academic Order), Spring 1990.
A25. *"Selling Socialism as 'The New Capitalism': The Threat Behind 'Employee Ownership'," Conservative Review, June 1990. The article "Employee Ownership: A Rapidly Growing Threat to a Free Market?," in The Freeman, June-July 1990, is not being included here, because it is merely an abbreviated version of this Conservative Review article.
A23b. *"The Crisis in Our Universities," Conservative Review, May 1990.
A23a. *The Mudding of America," Conservative Review, April 1990, pp. 27-28.
A21. "Variations in Institutional Services: Their Impact on Private Transactions," WSU Business and Economic Report, September 1988. This isn't included on the Web page, since it isn't the type of writing that is meaningful for social and political thought.
A20. "A Project for Conservative Academics: Toward a Theory of Constitutional Reconstruction," VOX, Autumn 1988.
A19. *"The Iran/Contra Affair: A Crisis in Ideology," St. Croix Review, March 1987.
A18. *"The Open Marketplace of Ideas," VOX, Spring 1987.
A17. "Adjustable Rate Mortgage Loans: A New Challenge to the Professionals Advising Today's Homebuyers," WSU Business and Economic Report, Winter 1994. This is not included here, since it is about a legal point of minor importance.
A16. *"The Ferraro Candidacy," St. Croix Review, October/November 1984.
A15b. *"The Movie 'Reds'," St. Croix Review, March/April 1982, pp. 22-27.
A15a. *"The Reagan Inaugural Address," St. Croix Review, April/May 1981.
A14. *"Conservative Intellectuals and the Reagan Years," Universitas, February 1981.
A13. *"Myths and American Constitutional History," The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1978.
A12a. *"'Gay Rights Ordinances': Why They Are Inconsistent With Freedom," accepted by New Guard, the national magazine of Young Americans for Freedom, in June 1978. Murphey is unsure whether it was ever published by that magazine.
A12. *"The Concept of Freedom in Modern Social Philosophies," The Occasional Review, Winter 1977.
A9. *"Some Thoughts on 'The Lesson of Vietnam,'" St. Croix Review, October 1975.
A7. *"The Myth of the Separation of Church and State," New Guard, December 1973.
A5. * "Spiritual Values and the Free Society," Religion and Society, March 1970.
A4. *"What the Businessman Should Know About the New Left," WSU Business Journal, Summer 1970; reprinted in the Kansas Judicial Council Bulletin, 1971, and the Iola Register.
A3. *"A View of 'Racism in America,'" New Guard, March 1970.
A2. *"Antecedents of the Urban Crisis," Modern Age, Winter 1968. This is a publication of the paper I presented to the national meeting of the Philadelphia Society in April 1968.
A1. "Habendum Clauses in Oil and Gas Leases," Dicta (law review of the University of Denver College of Law), 1958. Winner of first prize in 1958 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute writing competition. This is not included here, since it deals with a legal subject of no philosophical importance.
BR119. *Of Lee Iacocca's Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, scheduled to be published in the Fall 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
BR118. *Of Robert H. Bates' When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa, published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 265-271..
BR117. *Of Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 271-277.
BR116. *Of M. Stanton Evans' Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy, published in the Spring 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 134-139.
BR114. *Of Patrick J. Buchanan's Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart, published in the Summer 2008 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 278-280.
BR110. *Of Rachelle Moyer Francis' Will the Real Millard Fillmore Please Stand Up?, published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 380-383.
BR109. *Of Atul Gawande's Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, published in the Summer 2007 issue of the Mankind Quarterly, pp. 118-120.
BR108. *Of Tom DeLay's No Retreat, No Victory: One American's Fight, published in the Summer 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 251-253.
BR107. *Of Larry Diamond's Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, published in the Summer 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 258-261.
BR106. *Of Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close's The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today, published in the Summer 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 253-257.
BR105. *Of Alvaro Vargas Llosa's The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty, published in the Spring 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 109-111.
BR104. *Of Lou Dobbs' War Against the Middle Class, published in the Spring 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 111-117.
BR103. *Of Samuel Francis's (ed.) Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time, a review published directly to this Web site.
BR102. *Of Congressman Tom Tancredo's In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security, published in the Winter 2006 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 489-493.
BR100. *Of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, published in the Fall 2006 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 367-369.
BR99. *Of Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 107-114.
BR97. *Of Dick Morris's Rewriting History and Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary, published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 114-122.
BR94. *Of Debra Dickerson's The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners, published in the Fall 2005 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 383-390.
BR93. *Of Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2005, pp. 241-248.
BR89. *Of Patrick J. Buchanan's Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (2004), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 2004, pp. 359-363.
BR87. *Of Charles A. Kupchan's The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2004, pp.122-128.
BR86. *Of Ann Coulter's Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2004, pp. 253-6.
BR85. *Of Donald H. Wolfe's The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, a review published directly to this Web site.
BR84. *Of Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth Century Intellectual and Political Movements, a review published directly to this Web site.
BR81. *Of Bernard Lewis's What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 2003, pp. 369-371..
BR79. *Of Sandra Day O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2003, pp. 251-254. This was published a second time, by virtue of an editorial oversight, in the Fall 2004 issue, pp. 363-366.
BR78. *Of Michael Savage's The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language, and Culture, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2003, pp. 249-251.
BR77. *Of Michael S. Rose's Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2003, pp. 112-115.
BR76. *Of Arthur Herman's Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2003, pp. 107-112.
BR75. *Of Michael Lind's Vietnam, The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2003, pp. 103-7.
BR74. *Of Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2002, pp. 253-256; also in The Occidental Quarterly, Spring 2003, pp. 101-104.
BR73. *Of Michael Andrew Grissom's Can the South Survive?, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2002, pp. 248-251; this was also published in the Occidental Quarterly, Winter 2002-3, pp. 97-100.
BR71. *Of Bernard Goldberg's Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, in The St. Croix Review, June 2002, pp. 59-64. It was also published in the Middle American News, April 2002, p. 6; and in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2002, pp. 237-242..
BR68. *Of Patrick J. Buchanan’s The Death of the West, in the Middle American News, March 2002, pp. 7, 9 and 12. This is also published in The St. Croix Review, April 2002, pp. 59-62. Yet other versions were published in Right Now! (British journal of opinion), April/June 2002, pp. 6-7; and in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2002, pp. 126-130.
BR67. *Of Barbara Olson’s The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2002, pp. 245-247.
BR66. *Of Bill O’Riley’s The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Rich and Powerful in America, in the Middle American News, February 2002.
BR64. *Of Jeff Gates’ The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century, in Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Winter 2001, pp. 759-761.
BR63. *David P. Schippers’s and Alan P. Henry’s Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment in The St. Croix Review, June 2001, pp. 60-2.
BR62. *Of James Bacque’s and Richard Matthias Miller’s Dear Enemy :Then and Now ,in Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2001.
BR61. *Of James F. Cooper’s Knights of the Brush: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2001.
BR60. *Of Michael S. Berliner (ed.)’s Letters of Ayn Rand, in The St. Croix Review, February 2001, pp. 63-64.
BR59. *Of Stephen Bertman’s Cultural Amnesia: America’s Future and the Crisis of Memory, in The St. Croix Review, December 2000, pp. 61-63. The same review appeared in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 2000, pp. 251-253.
BR58. *Of R. A. McConnell’s Joyride to Infinity: A Scientific Study of the Doomsday Literature, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 2000, pp. 369-370.
BR57. *Of Dario Fernandez-Morera’s American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 2000, pp. 372-373.
BR55. *Of James Charles Roy’s The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the History of Prussia, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 2000, pp. 378-379.
BR53. *Of James Bacque's Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company Limited, 1997), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 2000, pp.122-126.
BR52. *Of Li Zhisui’s The Private Life of Chairman Mao, in The St. Croix Review, December 1999, pp. 60-62. This also appeared in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 1998, pp. 216-219.
BR51. *Of Arthur Jacobs' The Prison Called Hohenasperg (Universal Publishers, 1999), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 1999, pp. 383-384.
BR50. *Of Samuel Francis' Revolution from the Middle (Middle American Press, 1997), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 1999, pp. 252-256.
BR48. *Of Patrick Buchanan's The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 1999, pp. 126-128.
BR47. *Of Stephen Bertman, Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 1998, pp. 358-360.
BR46. *Of Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall 1998, pp.355-358.
BR42. *Of Susan Huck, Why Do Americans Submit to This? (McLean, VA: Newcomb Publishers, Inc., 1997) in Conservative Review, July/August 1997, pp. 35-38. (This is similar to, but has certain points in addition to, the review in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Summer 1997, pp. 254-256.)
BR41. *Of John O. Nelson, The Ethics of Socialism, Fascism, Capitalism, and the Welfare State (Boulder, CO: Whiteing Publishing, 1996), in Conservative Review, May/June 1997, p. 40.
BR37. *Of George H. Nash's The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917-1918 (New York: W. W. Norton &Company, 1996), in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Winter 1996, pp. 492-493.
BR36. *Of Rod L. Evans's and Irwin M. Berent's The Quotable Conservative: The Giants of Conservatism on Liberty, Freedom, Individual Responsibility and Traditional Values in the Conservative Review, November/December 1996, p. 33.
BR35. *Of James R. Whelan's Out of the Ashes: Life, Death and Transfiguration of Democracy in Chile, 1833-1988, in Conservative Review, July/August 1996, pp. 37-38.
BR29. *Of Richard Bernstein's Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America's Future and Arthur M. Schlesinger's The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, in Conservative Review, March/April 1995, pp 35-37.
BR28. *Of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, in Conservative Review, January/February 1995, pp. 35-38
BR25. *Of Theodore Pappas' The Martin Luther King, Jr., Plagiarism Story, in Conservative Review, September/October 1994. Also in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Spring 1994, pp. 125-128.
BR24. *Of Raphael G. Kazmann's The American Revolution Resurgent, in Conservative Review, November/December 1994, pp. 35-36. Also in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Winter 1993, pp. 507-509. Also in Universitas,Jan/Mar 1994, p. 4.
BR20. *Of Russell Kirk's The Roots of American Order and Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Fall/Winter 1992, pp. 458-463.
BR18. *Of Steven C. Mosher's China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality, in St. Croix Review, April 1992, pp. 60-61. Also in Conservative Review, Dec. 1991, pp. 39-40.
BR17. *Of quarterly journal Issues & Views: An Open Forum Affecting the Black Community, in Conservative Review, Jan.1992, pp. 45-47.
BR16a. *Of Ralph Scott's Education and Ethnicity: The U.S. Experiment in School Integration, and of Herbert Galton's Freedom--From Illusions, both in the January 1991 issue of Universitas.
BR16b. *Of Hans J. Eysenck's The Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, in Universitas, October 1990; and of Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart, in Universitas, October 1990.
BR15. *Of Henry A. Myers' Medieval Kingship, in Universitas, September 1990.
BR14. *Of Ted J. Smith III's Propaganda: A Pluralistic Perspective, in Universitas, September 1990.
BR13. *Of Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley's Paul Tillich on Creativity, in Universitas, September 1990.
BR11. *Of George Roche's A World Without Heroes: The Modern Tragedy, in Universitas, May 1990.
BR8. *Of Otto Scott's Buried Treasures, in Universitas, November 1989.
BR7. *Of Robert Bork's The Tempting of America, in The Wichita Eagle, December 17, 1989.
BR6. *Of W. J. Wagner's Polish Law Throughout the Ages, in Universitas, Fall 1984.
BR5. *Of Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro's Son of the Revolution, in Universitas, November 1983.
BR4. *Of James Whisker's The Right to Hunt, in Universitas, December 1982.
BR3. *Of Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren, in St. Croix Review, October/November 1980.
BR2. *Of Alice P. Miller's Edmund Burke and His World, in Universitas, December 1979.
BR1. *Of Theodore Roszak's Where the Wasteland Ends, in New Guard, April 1973.
REVIEWS BY OTHERS
O9. *Book review by Esam Sohail of the monograph "America Challenged," published in the Fall 2007 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 383-385.
O8. *Book review by historian Otto Scott of "Issues in American History" (later republished as "The Historic Dispossession of the American Indian--and Other Key Issues in American History"), in the September 1, 1995, issue of Otto Scott's COMPASS.
O7. *Book review by Dr. James B. Whisker of West Virginia University of "Modern Social and Political Philosophies: Burkean Conservatism and Classical Liberalism," in the April 1982 issue of Universitas, the national publication of University Professors for Academic Order.
O5. *Review of book Liberalism in Contemporary America, in the Summer 1992 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies [as a note to the reader originally explained, this review was actually written by Prof. Murphey at the request of the journal's editor, who then made some changes to reflect his own thinking. It has the advantage of giving Murphey's own self-perception of the role of that book as part of his writings].
O4. Review of book Liberalism in Contemporary America in the September 1, 1992, issue of Otto Scott’s Compass.
O2. Review of book Liberal Thought in Modern America in the Spring 1987 issue of Lincoln Review.
O1b. *Review of Murphey's monograph "The Principles of Classical Liberalism," by Ron Robinson in the July/August 1973 issue of New Guard, the national magazine of Young Americans for Freedom.
O1. Review of book Emergent Man in the December 1962 issue of American Opinion.
MISCELLANEOUS OTHER PUBLISHED WORK
Ms13. *"An American Pledge" (occasioned by the Gulf War in 1991, and published in many outlets).
Ms12. *"Implications of the Salman Rushdie Fatwa" editor's column, Universitas, April 1989, p. 2.
Ms10. *“Bork Gives Us His View of Law,” op-ed column for the Wichita Eagle, December 17, 1989.
Ms5. * “Obscenity: Not Simplistic,” op-ed piece for the Wichita Eagle and Beacon, May 21, 1977.
Ms3. Flyer entitled "Background on the Party Split," written in May 1974 giving a detailed account of Murphey's tenure as Republican County Chairman in Sedgwick County, Kansas, and of the conflict within the Party. It is accompanied by a copy of an editorial in The Wichita Beacon supporting Murphey in that conflict. Since this material is more biographical than theoretical, it is not included in this "collected writings" website, but rather can be found Murphey's collected writings in the Wichita State University archives.
Ms2b. *Pamphlet written for distribution by Wichita State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, 1970, relating to decision by Wichita city commission not to make city auditorium available for showing of "Hair."
Ms2a. *Brief to the Colorado Supreme Court in case challenging the Constitutionality of the Colorado law against discrimination in housing. Approximately 1962. Written by Murphey.
Ms2. *“Right to Work,” op-ed column for the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, 1958.
Ms1. Series of seven articles (with first missing and not replaceable) published in the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph during the days including and following January 14, 1954. The articles give the history, in detail, of Murphey's fight as an undergraduate against the Left on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to the article, there is a letter by Murphey dated May 22, 1962, summarizing that conflict. Included, also, is an article from the Gazette-Telegraph on June 26, 1960, recounting a speech by Murphey while a candidate that year for the C.U. Board of Regents. Since this material is more biographical than theoretical, it is not included in this "collected writings" website, but rather can be found among Murphey's collected writings in the Wichita State University archives.
CORRESPONDENCE
C1. *Letter to the Coloradan (Univ. of Colorado magazine), June 3, 2005, responding to article about my 1953-4 controversy on the campus. (See also item Ms1 here.)
C2. *Letter declaring retirement from Wichita State University.
C3. *Letter to daughter dated Jan. 12, 1989, relating to discussion of "the meaning of life."
C4. *Three letters relating to religion: excerpt of letter, relating to "the mysteries of life," January 8, 1987; letter to a philosopher-friend on a new religion, May 14, 1996; letter to another friend discussing Christianity.
C4a. *Letter to the Wichita Eagle-Beacon dated April 2, 1989, setting out Murphey's thinking about what would now be called "the insistence upon 'politically correct' speech."
C5. *Excerpt of letter explicating certain points in book Emergent Man; Dec. 15, 1969.
C8. *Letter to Prof. Rozek re 1953-4 controversy on Colorado University campus.
C9. *Letter to grandson, Conor Piercey, on September 16, 200l, reflecting on the atrocities of September 11and what a grandfather hopes their meaning will be to a young American.
UNPUBLISHED WORK
U14. *Thoughts in memory of Prof. John Nelson, prepared for his memorial service, October 2005.
U10. *A memorandum written to his fellow members of the Wichita State University Human Relations Commission on February 29, 1972, discussing issues of racial preference and feminism; also, excerpt from a letter in 1998 discussing the rise of a "dual system" on matters of race and sex .
U8a. *"Axiomatic Moral Philosophies: Some Problems of Method and Validity."
U8. *A memorandum written to a committee at Wichita State University on April 26, 1985, which is included because it comments on the abuse of quantification that Murphey saw so often in academic life. Also, excerpts from a letter to another faculty member about a proposal to evaluate faculty on a "management by objectives" basis.
U7. *A "think piece" exploring a number of issues of business ethics, written in late 1970s.
U6. *Paper delivered at the Midwest Sociological Society meeting in Chicago, April 1987, entitled "The Concept of a Social Market Economy: Antecedents and Possibilities."
U5a. *Paper delivered to the national meeting of the Philadelphia Society, April 11, 1981, entitled "The Constitution as a 'Living Document'"; followed by an unpublished paper "Toward a Theory of Constitutional Reconstruction" written in late 1980s.
U1. Comment on Personal Intellectual History (as part of supportive materials for consideration to be named "University Professor," 1997).