Our Fall 2025 issue shows why readers have valued the journal for 30 years—like every other issue, it features insights found nowhere else, written with scholarly rigor, moral clarity, and a fierce pursuit of truth.
This issue revisits Nobel laureate James Buchanan’s influential essay on “The Samaritan’s Dilemma.” Buchanan defined the dilemma as a paradox of compassion: when aid intended to uplift ends up discouraging responsibility … or even creates new problems. Today, half a century later, that question is more urgent than ever.
Accessible. Insightful. Timely. This issue is a reminder of why The Independent Review endures.
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