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Like the Ghost of Christmas yet to come, Daniel Hannan comes to interrupt the American Dream. He spreads before us an image of what promise we had and enjoyed or what we may yet become if we are not vigilant and adopt the very ways of the world that progressives would have us follow. As he himself states, "I have been a Member of the European Parliament for eleven years. I am living in your future. Let me tell you a few things about it." Hannan observes that the world is in danger of losing America as a shinning goal towards which to aspire because "the characteristics that once set America apart are being eliminated. The United States is becoming just another country." The use of the word "Serfdom", as part of the title is quite telling. It is a word not common to the American lexicon, yet reveals the psyche of the European perspective from which Hannan's observations are made. "The New Road to Serfdom", as with F.A. Hayek's 1944 book "Road to Serfdom" is a timely warning to America of how the embracing of socialism and communism threatens to pull democracy and freedom back into a condition of serf and master. The author would repair the crack in the Bell of Liberty and ring out "...that America stands for something. Your country actualizes an ideal" and should we shirk from the very ideals upon which our nation was founded, "all of us will be left the poorer." Daniel Hannan clearly shows that while the Road to Serfdom is paved with liberal good intentions, it leads into a blind alley where prosperity is mugged and freedom is lost.