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...book becomes far more enjoyable when Fried starts to discuss our modern government, drawing on his years of government experience, first as solicitor general and later as a justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried aims high in his new book, “Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government.” Early on in this discussion of liberty in the modern era, he stakes his claim “to do for our time and liberal democratic societies what Friedrich Hayek did some sixty years ago in The Road to Serfdom...
Does he reach his goal? Is “Modern Liberty” a profound political tract, one that is likely to gladden some and infuriate many? Does he deliver a novel critique of today’s society, one as fresh as Hayek’s claim that the loss of economic liberty is the first step toward fascism...
...Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment center, the hotel's swanky Cerise restaurant serves a modern European menu using local ingredients, and the bartender makes a mean mojito. It's been said one should never mix business with pleasure. Whoever said that...
...wearing a pink and beige scarf with a matching slinky top tucked into hip-riding jeans as she sits sipping smoothies with her girlfriends in an upmarket caf?. "We are aware that we need to be veiled," she explains. "But we are young and we want to be modern and trendy." Such attitudes draw double takes from conservative Egyptians like Magda Samaha, who scoffs, "These are covered, yet naked, women...