The Rebooted Animal Farm’s New Villain: Capitalism

One of the strange political phenomena of our times is the return of socialism and Communism in our ideological discourse. Any number of attacks on property rights or other freedoms are justified by arguments for equality grounded in revolution, advanced by increasingly popular young politicians. Although America defeated the Soviet Union, we never really fixed the ideological problem, even though we successfully suppressed it during the Cold War. We’re moving toward a major crisis in our regime, at the core of which is our educational system.