Why More Young People Favor Socialism and What We Should Do: Mary Eberstadt

A growing number of young people now favor socialism over capitalism. According to author Mary Eberstadt, that’s because these young people have been deliberately miseducated, and they should learn more about the history and truth. “Partly because they have been deliberately miseducated about their country’s past,” Eberstadt said in an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report” broadcast Wednesday. Eberstadt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She is an essayist, novelist, and author of several books. She was a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2002–2013 and was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George Schultz between 1985 and 1987. Eberstadt said that it’s now been generations that a certain kind of anti-Americanism has been dominant, especially on university and college campuses. “What young people need to understand is that there are deep reasons why they’re being fed that narrative. They are being deprived of the …

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