Media Don't Sing Praises of Free Market

Have you ever seen a movie about the horrors of Maoism? No, and you never will. Instead, you get stories about how evil the United States is by its use of the wicked thing known as a corporation. Yes, some corporations are soulless and cruel. And they may pay their lower level employees too little. But they don’t commit mass murder against their people. They don’t deport their people to deserts and drop them off to die of thirst.

Yes, corporations committed atrocities in Africa, especially in the Belgian Congo. But those were not GM or Exxon. They were Belgian corporations. American life, with most working people employed by businesses of large and medium and small size, is the most benign form of social organization ever used in a large nation. It gets no praise in the media. I wonder if the time has come for a textbook that tells the truth about America, about the free market, about race, about free minds and free markets? Probably not, so writes Ben Stein in The American Spectator.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, and lawyer, who served as a speechwriter in the Nixon administration as the Watergate scandal unfolded. He began his unlikely road to stardom when director John Hughes cast him as the numbingly dull economics teacher in the urban comedy, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Read more reports from Ben Stein — Click Here Now.