Recently I read David McCullough’s John Adams in order to attend as a guest a meeting of my wife’s book discussion group, and it reminded me of the qualities of this most under-appreciated of our founders. McCullough’s treatment has been criticized as overly admiring of Adams, overly contemptuous of Thomas Jefferson, and, as popularly written […]
Hayek and His Legacy
For most of his career, economist Friedrich Hayek was the proverbial “voice in the wilderness” with his championing of free market capitalism over socialism. Then an amazing thing happened – socialistic thought was soundly defeated, at least everywhere but the higher reaches of many American elite universities. His breakthrough work was The Road to Serfdom […]