Misusing Hayek

Jonathan Rauch’s formulation doesn’t work.

Here is an interesting essay by Jonah Goldberg on Hayek, gay marriage and traffic lights that is humorous and informative. In it we take a look at what Hayek called "spontaneous order" and how it affects the rate of change in social custom and organization. Radicals always want their change NOW, but Hayek showed how dangerous this kind of social engineering can be given that for any particular system we cannot know all of the effects of changing it until long after the change has been made, even if it is a change for the better. Very interesting reading.