“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Editor's Note: On April 6, Reason published David Boaz's "Up From Slavery: There's no such thing as a golden age of lost liberty," which argued that libertarians who omit or minimize slavery and other ...

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 ...