May 29, 2003

Donald Devine, the vice-chair of the ACU is in the midst of a dustup with Rush Limbaugh and National Review. Devine seeks to pin his foes by claiming the mantle of Hayek:

National Review could not comprehend the most important modern insight about government, made by modern conservatism's icon and Nobel laureate, F.A. Hayek. He recognized that the principle reason for the ultimate failure of national central planning was the inability of the government to process widely disbursed, localized and situation-specific information effectively in complex social settings. The magazine could not understand why that limitation would also apply to the U.S. trying to administer a world empire.
Posted by Greg Ransom