New edition of The Road to Serfdom

From Arts & Letters Daily I found an article about a new edition of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. One of my great frustrations is Hayek's relative obscurity. I've mentioned his name in a room full of intelligent, highly educated people, PhDs or grad students, and received blank stares in return. If you've never heard of Hayek, you owe it to yourself to read the article for an adequate summary of Hayek's life and his early works.

A pleasant surprise: The New Criterion is a conservative journal of culture--imagine a cross between the Sunday culture section of the New York Times and the Goldwater-era National Review--but the article accurately reports Hayek's self-identification as a "liberal" in the 19th century European sense. I won't complain too much that they left out the title of Hayek's essay explaining his political views, when I can tell you it's Why I Am Not a Conservative.

More on Hayek here. Ready to read him? The Road to Serfdom was my first book, but I'd suggest The Constitution of Liberty as a better introduction to his thought.