An UNMUTED Book Club: The Road to Serfdom

​An UNMUTED Book Club: Islamic Exceptionalism

​READING NOT REQUIRED - just be curious!

​Next up: Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, the 1944 book that argued central planning doesn't just fail on its own terms but sets a country sliding toward tyranny, no matter how decent the intentions behind it.

​Hayek wrote it as a warning to his adopted Britain, watching wartime economic controls and the postwar appetite for planning and fearing they'd curdle into something far worse. The core claim is uncomfortable: that the road to authoritarianism is often paved by well-meaning reformers who want the state to steer the economy toward fairness, and that once you hand government that kind of control, individual freedom rarely survives the trip. It's a foundational text of modern libertarian and conservative thought, and it's the book people keep reaching for when they want to argue that good intentions and coercion aren't opposites.

​Show up even if you only got through a chunk. We'll talk about planning versus markets, where Hayek looks prophetic, where he looks paranoid, and what an argument written against 1940s socialism has to say to a very different 2026. And we'll do a fun hypothetical case study.

​UNMUTED is a discussion forum for the politically curious. Accessible. Engaging. Social. Open-minded is the name of the game. Join your people.