Many might argue that serfdom, in its traditional form, as a social condition has died out and that the majority of the world is, more or less, free. Even in places suffering from autocratic rule, the ...

Varro, an ancient Roman writer, in his work “Res Rusticae” (“Village affairs”), which is a manual on the management of slave-run estates, says that a slave is a “talking tool” (compared to “half-mute ...

The Russian emancipation reform of 1861 eventually sunk the country into chaos. We show how it happened step by step. The abolition of serfdom in Russia was a complex and multi-layered process that ...

There are always politicians who say that things were better in the past. And the top judicial official in Russia is one of them — he appears to be advocating a return to serfdom. Valery Zorkin, the ...

Last Saturday I had the honor of addressing the 50th anniversary meeting of the Philadelphia Society. The title of the meeting was “The Road Ahead—Serfdom or Liberty?” My remarks sought to suggest ...

This month, advocates of free enterprise celebrate 80 years since F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) published The Road to Serfdom. It is also approximately 80 years since the ideology of Peronism took hold in ...

Every day, more see that the road to serfdom in America does not involve a knock in the night or a jack-booted thug. It starts with smooth-talking politicians offering seemingly innocuous compromises, ...

Editor's Note: On April 6, Reason published David Boaz's "Up From Slavery: There's no such thing as a golden age of lost liberty," which argued that libertarians who omit or minimize slavery and other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Sir Peter Marshall. Sir, Repeated and cumulative failure to grip adequately the problem of eurozone ...