In Democratic Vistas we find extensive evidence of Walt Whitman's sympathy with ideas broadly in accord with Hayek's vision of social evolution.
Thomas G. Peyser
Thomas Peyser is an English professor at Randolph-Macon College and a film critic for Style Weekly. He is the author of Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism (Duke University Press, 1998). See his faculty page.