The uses of hyperbole.

• Author: Henshaw, Jim
• Position: Letter to the editor

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Matt Welch engages in hyperbole himself when he characterizes Hayek's thesis in The Road to Serfdom as "manifestations of collectivism even in market-based democracies lead inexorably down the road to tyranny," considering that Hayek advocates some lite-collectivist policies in that book ("The Uses of Hyperbole," August/September). It may take decades or even hundreds of years before the full consequences of...