Put Down that Hayek

Can't be reading the dead white men:

Pamphlets in the Tea Party bid for a Second American Revolution, the works include Frédéric Bastiat’s “The Law,” published in 1850, which proclaimed that taxing people to pay for schools or roads was government-sanctioned theft, and Friedrich Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” (1944), which argued that a government that intervened in the economy would inevitably intervene in every aspect of its citizens’ lives.

Kate Zernike finds all this alarming, of course. I take it as good news, because if we extend the rule against taking using the ideas of dead white men to its logical conclusion, that means we are finally rid of Howard Zinn.