The business of America. (Comment).(Brief Article)

LIBERALS CONFRONT THE charge that we are anti-business. Modern liberals like to strike a "third-way" pose of being pro-entrepreneur and pro-market while socially liberal on such issues as tolerance and the environment. Old-time anti-corporate liberals, such as trade unionists and Naderites, are said to be stuck in a 1930s time warp.

But every so often, politics offers a graphic reminder of why good liberals are necessarily anti-business. Successful individual entrepreneurs and dynamic corporations are certainly economic assets; the problem is organized business as a ...

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