If the University of Chicago Press had listened to one of its reader’s reports, it might not have published one of its best-selling books of all time. The story of how Chicago came to issue The Road ...

“Nearly the whole of the professional, intellectual, and government class has betrayed the cause of universal human liberty in our times.” (Jeffrey Tucker). Our Government forces taxpayers to ...

Everything about society sets us up to become subservient to the pursuit of the mortgage — but bitcoin changes that. Real estate ownership is the core aspiration driving the Modern Serfdom Model. Debt ...

In a scramble to raise get the budget deficit under control French politicians considering a novel means of taxing the country’s workers - Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images Looking at our tax bills, ...

Last Saturday I had the honor of addressing the 50th anniversary meeting of the Philadelphia Society. The title of the meeting was “The Road Ahead—Serfdom or Liberty?” My remarks sought to suggest ...

In 1944, my good friend, the late Nobelist Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), published the Road to Serfdom. It immediately became an international sensation. In it, Hayek argued that government ...

Every day, more see that the road to serfdom in America does not involve a knock in the night or a jack-booted thug. It starts with smooth-talking politicians offering seemingly innocuous compromises, ...

Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn't just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from independent, self-responsible ...

There are always politicians who say that things were better in the past. And the top judicial official in Russia is one of them — he appears to be advocating a return to serfdom. Valery Zorkin, the ...

I want to start in 1945. The guns had finally drawn silent in Western Europe. The bombs had stopped falling. The skies above were no longer filled with the scream of fighter planes. The invasions and ...

Real estate ownership is the core aspiration driving the Modern Serfdom Model. Debt — and in particular, mortgages — is the mechanism that binds the serf to the system. Inflation covertly moves the ...