The MagazineFree to ChooseThe 70-30 solution to the new culture war.Aug 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43
• By RYAN T. ANDERSON
 The Battle  How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future Arthur Brooks thinks we’re in for a new culture war. While we used to “fight over guns, abortion, religion, and gays,” our future battle is a struggle between “free enterprise and big government.” He casts his lot with free enterprise and argues that 70 percent of Americans do so as well. The problem is that a coalition of 30 percent prowls the halls of power in America and is working to undo 200 years of American exceptionalism, and they’re focused on co-opting the young to their side. The Battle is an attempt to inoculate the young and reassure the rest of America that the free enterprise system is both economically and morally superior to its alternatives. An accomplished social scientist—formerly at Syracuse, now president of the American Enterprise Institute—Brooks is uniquely qualified to write this sort of book. The result is jam-packed with facts and figures—the endnotes alone comprise a fifth of the total—sufficient to show that entrepreneurship, economic liberty, and market economies make the most sense, not only in theory but in practice. This attention to both ideas and their consequences is the book’s greatest strength. To read more, you must be a Weekly Standard Subscriber We're Sorry,
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