Why the Worst Get on Top
Susan Stamberg reports on Martha Gellhorn, "one of the first great female war correspondents," whose marriage to Ernest Hemingway is being dramatized by HBO next week. Gellhorn had a healthy skepticism toward power:
In 1983, a British TV interviewer posed this loaded question to Gellhorn, then 75 and still gorgeous: "I.F. Stone once described governments as comprised entirely of liars and nothing they say should ever be believed." The response was a typical no-holds-barred Gellhorn opinion: "Quite right. And Tolstoy once said governments are a collection of men who do violence to the rest of us. Between Izzy Stone and Tolstoy, you've got it about right."The title of this post is of course a chapter title from Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.
Posted on May 22, 2012 Posted to Cato@Liberty
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