Rich Tucker : Spurning the Siren Call of Socialism

“We Are All Socialists now,” declares the cover of Newsweek magazine. Well, speak for yourselves. Oh, and let us know how that’s working out for you.

Not terribly well, if other media reports are to be believed. “Newsweek dropped its [subscription] rate base to 2.6 million, from 3.1 million a year ago, and people briefed on its plans said it was likely to go below 2 million by next year,” The New York Times reported recently. Maybe a million or so people have decided they’d rather have their subscriptions dead than read red propaganda.