Opinion

Can the US Withstand the Socialist Left’s Assault?

2/9/2025|Updated: 2/17/2025

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Commentary

Sometimes a book’s cover gives the reader a particularly clear preview of its contents. The cover of J.T. Young’s book “Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed the Socialist Left” has portraits of George Washington and Karl Marx gazing outward. Will we follow the philosophy of George Washington (individual liberty under a government limited to protecting our rights) or that of Karl Marx (forced communal living under a government of unlimited power)?

George Leef

Author

George C. Leef is director of editorial content for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College (Waukesha, WI) and a juris doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation until 2003. A regular columnist for Forbes.com, Leef was book review editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, from 1996 to 2012. He has published numerous articles in The Freeman, Reason, The Free Market, Cato Journal, The Detroit News, Independent Review, and Regulation. He writes regularly for the National Review’s The Corner blog and for EdWatchDaily. He recently authored the novel, “The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale” (Bombardier Books, 2022).