Social Change and Friends of Liberty Back  In the October, 1948,
Partisan Review, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., wrote, "I see no
obstacle to the gradual advance of socialism in the United
States through a series of New Deals.  On June 14, 2001,
columnist George Will wrote in The Washington Post that we have
now experienced "the intellectual collapse of socialism."  Both
of these claims could be true. Socialism may continue to advance
even if it is intellectually dead. In the United States, as in
eastern Europe, the song may be over, but the malady lingers on.
Socialists win most elections in Europe and elsewhere now.
Despite the remarkable advances for liberty in Chile some years
ago, the current president of Chile is a socialist.  In the
United States, proponents of more liberty certainly now have the
intellectual initiative. The promoters of big government have no
proposals as intellectually stimulating as:    • Education
vouchers and other means of choice in education   •
Personalization of Social Security   •