The Road to Serfdom
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Oct 9, 2026
Amy WesterveltHOST
... you've probably heard of them.
Amy WesterveltHOST
Um, so the way that Peter Thiel is about The Sovereign Individual, this guy was about The Road to Serfdom, which is Hayek's big thing.
Amy WesterveltHOST
But he actually never read the original.
Amy WesterveltHOST
He read the, the Reader's Digest version.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
And I always beg to differ from these ideas so that, uh, uh, I was, as I say, uh, quite aware and in my various writings here and there, I've, uh, I've written about this from the late '90s onwards.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
But it wasn't until my 2013 book, Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire, that I put down in a v- very detailed format my analysis of US decline.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
And I should add maybe one other thing.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
Back in 2004, I was invited to be part of a panel, um, o- on globalization at, you know, it was just organized by some business students, uh, in my university.
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Radhika DesaiGUEST
You know, back in the '50s and '60s when everybody was under the spell of television and there was this big mainstream media and so on, and it was all, uh, run with money, you know, so big money, big TV companies, big newspapers, et cetera.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
And the m- main complaint of critical thinkers was that it tended to corral everybody in the middle so that, you know, people, you know, so that they would advertise, uh, on these, more people would watch, then more, more advertising could take place, blah, blah, and so on.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
Now what we have with these, uh, platform companies, whether it's Facebook or, or Twitter or what have you, is that the, uh, m- money is made not by corralling people in the middle, but by pulling them apart, by polarizing opinion.
Radhika DesaiGUEST
Um, and, uh, so this is being done to us.
Sean DeMarsHOST
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Alex DiPrimaGUEST
Uh, you know what, you know what's a seminal book that more people should be reading is The Road to Serfdom by F- F.A. Hayek.
Sean DeMarsHOST
Yeah.
Alex DiPrimaGUEST
Yeah.
Jorge MasvidalHOST
... and hours about this, brother.
Ben AskrenGUEST
I, I was, I just read, uh, oh, what was the book I just read? Uh, The Road to Serfdom by Hayek, which is about socialism.
Ben AskrenGUEST
And it's like, as you're reading, you're like- How are people falling for this trap again? And, you know, I guess it sounds good
Jorge MasvidalHOST
Poetry
Jay DyerGUEST
And he himself studied under both von Hayek and Fabian socialist professor, uh, Lasky at Harvard.
Jay DyerGUEST
And so that's, that's why you see in David Rockefeller this perfect mix, mixing of, uh, monopoly capitalism because von Hayek in the last chapter of his book, Road to Serfdom, argues for world government.
Jay DyerGUEST
So you can see that in a, a lot of the ethos of Rockefeller.
Jay DyerGUEST
But you can also see the, the socialist ethos there as well because studying under Lasky, David Rockefeller then goes on to write these glowing praises of Mao and Maoism.
Rusty RenoGUEST
But they both participate in the promise of the open society that life would be better, more inclusive, more human if it's more open, more fluid, if boundaries can be transgressed or transcended.
Rusty RenoGUEST
I mean, and there's a conservative side to this, and I, I cite in the book Friedrich Hayek's book, The Road to Serfdom, which is also a what went wrong book, published a, a year before, um, or maybe a year after Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies.
Rusty RenoGUEST
And for someone like Hayek, you know, the fluidity of the market and its infinitely, its completely sort of de-centered logic of exchange where no one's in charge, this is the great anti-totalitarian promise of the market, very much embraced by the American right, to be sure.
Rusty RenoGUEST
And so you get kind of the uni party in, in, um, once you get to Clinton, George W. Bush, and into Obama, kind of the uni party with American Republican Party promising greater and greater economic fluidity and openness, and the Democratic Party promising greater and greater cultural and moral openness and fluidity, and each promising to their base that they'll do it without maybe not...
Jim CalhounHOST
Some of your ideas remind me of Ron Paul, who just turned 91 years old.
Jim CalhounHOST
I often refer to three of his books.
Jim CalhounHOST
which include a section on demagogues, The Revolution, a manifesto, 10 Myths About Paper Money, a free essay from 1983, 36 pages, Cut the Most Basic Level, You and Ron Paul, The Holy Bible, the 66 book version, I'll probably agree that people deserve to be let alone or left alone as the default state of existence.
Jim CalhounHOST
But the globalists have tried to fill every area of our existence with a catasphere that is detrimental to life itself.
Jim CalhounHOST
Because I pay attention to West Virginia football, because I like college football, so I pay attention to many schools.
Jim CalhounHOST
But it looks like West Virginia is going to end up with a good squad.
Jim CalhounHOST
And I want to tell those that sent books and packages, yes, I did receive them.
Jim CalhounHOST
I'm going to have to acknowledge them on a future program.
Kevin BauderGUEST
of works by three authors.
Kevin BauderGUEST
The economic element of modern conservatism comes from Friedrich von Hayek, especially The Road to Serfdom.
Kevin BauderGUEST
The historical side of it comes from Russell Kirk, especially The Conservative Mind.
Kevin BauderGUEST
You're going to find lots of other books that these guys write, and every one of them is worth reading.
Kevin BauderGUEST
But The Road to Serfdom, The Conservative Mind, and then The Philosophical Side of Conservatism, Richard Weaver's book, Ideas Have Consequences.
Kevin BauderGUEST
Everybody uses that phrase now.
Kevin BauderGUEST
That's the book that the phrase comes from, Ideas Have Consequences.
David RandHOST
It...
David RandHOST
Because, you know, what we have understood, and Hayek's Road to Serfdom lays this out, is that the problem with dictatorships, amongst many other problems, the knowledge problem of planning the economy.
David RandHOST
You know, you give someone power, all of a sudden you're the world's largest hammer.
David RandHOST
Everything looks like a nail.
BrittanyHOST
Today I want to touch on my favorite man, Hayek, great economist, Road to Serfdom.
BrittanyHOST
The Tettleton's book is based off his book called The Road to Serfdom, but surf is spelled differently.
BrittanyHOST
It's very fun.
BrittanyHOST
I love that.
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