Reason has a rule against starting essays with quotes from Friedrich Hayek. After all, one could start nearly every essay in this magazine with a bon mot from the Austrian-born economist and classical liberal hero. But sometimes things get bad enough that only a Hayek quote will do.
In this month's cover story, where Eric Boehm documents how the GOP has been slouching toward socialism, he kicks things off with Hayek's warning that economic nationalism can be "the bridge from conservatism to collectivism" and that thinking in terms of "our" industries is only a short step from demanding that they be "directed in the national interest."
