Say what you want about Glenn Beck. But even he recently took valuable time out of his entertainment programming to teach American couch potatoes about one of the world’s greatest thinkers–Friedrich Hayek. Even Hayek’s popular work – The Road to Serfdom – will tax some readers. It’s hard readin’. But stay with it. It will fundamentally change the way you see the world.

The Road to Serfdom  is soaring on Amazon. Hayek’s ultimate fear about economic central planning – expressed in this book – was that it could lead to the kinds of systems Hayek had witnessed arising in Europe during the 1930s and 40s. But Hayek haters who would rather you not read inconvenient truths about the limits of government planning have latched onto what we’ll call the Samuelson Critique —  i.e. the idea that not all forms of socialism have lead to totalitarianism (as it did in Italy, German and the Soviet Union). In other words, before he died, Paul Samuelson said look at Denmark and said… “Where are the horror chambers?”