Despite regularly denouncing the rising socialist menace, President Trump has been pursuing a policy arguably just as, if not more, dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders: using government funds to purchase partial ownership of private companies.

Many people are confused by today’s politics or are completely turned off by the current political system. In our natural social state, politics might not even exist or take on a fundamentally different character. Today, the nation and the world is dominated by nationalist-socialist ideology, and politics represents more of what we imagine to be a primitive, jungle warfare existence.

[Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century edited by Donald Livingston.
(Pelican Publishing Company, 2012; 272 pp.)]

The contributors to Donald Livingston’s valuable collection of essays defend two main contentions. Each of these contentions may be held independently of the other, but the first one provides a reason to welcome the truth of the second.

[Ritenour, Shawn, Foundations of Economics: A Christian View, Wipf & Stock, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition. pp. 545]