Sublime

Unreasonable distributions of wealth have always turned their fire on reason.

At the Freedom School, Charles became particularly enamored of the work of two laissez-faire economists, the Austrian theorist Ludwig von Mises and his star pupil, Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian exile, who visited the Freedom School. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom had become an improbable best seller in 1944, after Reader’s Digest published a conde

L’Etat au service des personnes ne doit ni les contraindre ni se servir d’elles comme d’instruments aveugles pour des fins qu’elles ignorent.

Mais, loin de tout déterminisme ou de tout manichéisme, il en dévoile les dimensions multiples et contradictoires : la passion de l’égalité, qui fonde la démocratie, peut se retourner contre la liberté pour frayer la voie au despotisme.

needs. In the American view, the freedom of the individual was assumed to be premised on a certain level of ‘baseline communism’,

cold-blooded need for control.

ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom.

Only a few defenders of economic liberalism oppose this powerful tendency, but they become more and more timid