[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1123233794.shtml

It begins:

	F. A. Hayek famously argued in The Road to Serfdom
	that a consistent implementation of a socialist
	economic policy would entail a totalitarian
	political and legal order. Socialist economics is
	pretty much dead today, but the radically
	egalitarian moral impulses that undergirded it are
	still with us, and it seems increasingly evident
	that they are having an effect on the public life
	of contemporary Western democracies that bears at
	least a family resemblance to the outcome Hayek
	warned us of. The new totalitarianism is far milder
	than the old, and works through regulations,
	lawsuits, fines, and educational policy rather
	than...