The Russian emancipation reform of 1861 eventually sunk the country into chaos. We show how it happened step by step. The abolition of serfdom in Russia was a complex and multi-layered process that ...

Varro, an ancient Roman writer, in his work “Res Rusticae” (“Village affairs”), which is a manual on the management of slave-run estates, says that a slave is a “talking tool” (compared to “half-mute ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Journal Editorial Report: One is for big government. The other wants to shrink it. Photo: Mandel Nganerin Schaff/AFP via Getty Images Friedrich Hayek submitted “The Road to Serfdom” to three American ...

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, ...

On the 80th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Friedrich Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom,” Rainer Zitelmann warns that the socialists and fascists in the 1940s and 2024 share a philosophical ...

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 ...