Tag: socialism
Jul 27, 2026
On July 3, President Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore, 25 minutes from my house. He warned of a resurgence of the “communist menace” in this country and called communism “a mortal threat to American liberty.” Afterward, a friend asked me, “Should I move to cash before...
Jan 12, 2026
Last week’s column covered four different systems often lumped together as “socialism”: State Socialism, State Capitalism, Democratic Socialism, and Social Democracy. While our perceptions of them are shaped by how we think about freedom and fairness, the...
Jan 5, 2026
The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City has recently put a spotlight on socialism. According to an NBC poll, increasing numbers of Americans view this system positively. But when we talk about socialism, we’re usually not talking about the same...
Sep 1, 2025
“But isn’t that socialism?” This question was one reader’s response to last week’s column about the US government demanding 15% of Nvidia’s and AMD’s Chinese sales as the price of granting an export license. Since then, the Trump administration has forced a deal...
Nov 2, 2020
With the 2020 elections, we are hearing a lot about socialism. Many fear that, should the Democratic party sweep the White House and Senate, an inevitable march toward the US becoming a socialist country will begin. Socialism is an economic system in which the means...
