Mormon America: How Is The Reporting In The New Nationally Published Tome On Mormonism? - 2000

"The old contest between the United States and the Soviet Union was claimed by both sides to be about which governmental system afforded a better life to its people. I see nothing in Russia's flashy new role in the world that indicates an interest in that old cause. Nor do I hear it mentioned often or usefully in our own discussions of the present state of our economy. To bring up the subject of providing a better life is to lean too far left, to flirt with socialism. We used to be told that capitalism had let us win the Cold War, back when we were sure we had won it. Not freedom of speech, press, and assembly. No the rights that put real power into public hands. Since then we have learned that money is speech and corporations are people, notions that are a good deal more capitalistic then any we subscribed to in the days of supposed ideological struggle." - Marilynne Robinson, Harper's Magazine, June 2019.