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the wide road to serfdom 2

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek My rating: 5 of 5 stars This 1944 classic was the post-war clarion call against collectivism and its glide path to totalitarianism. Controversially for the time, it declared that socialism, communism, and fascism all float in the same collectivist (or Leftist) swamp, […]


what haunts paris?

Haunting Paris by Mamta Chaudhry My rating: 4 of 5 stars The book is a beautiful and compelling mystery/ghost story/historic account about Paris and her many ghosts. At a recent book club meeting, we hosted the first time novelist and long-time writer, Mamta Chaudhry, who shared some of her and […]