The Battle for America

America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays—rather it is a war against the creeping changes which threaten our culture of free enterprise.

Free enterprise embodies the values that define us as a nation: individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. It is the source of our past success and the promise of a better future. But the recent economic crisis has distorted our values and given the small minority who opposed free enterprise a pretext for making sweeping European-style social change.

Many Americans have forgotten the evils of twentieth-century socialism and the predations of America's own Great Society welfare-state programs. But as American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks reveals in The Battle, the proponents of socialism are back with a vengeance. They have the full arsenal of government, money, and power, and they are using our economic insecurity to introduce breathtaking increases in the reach of the state. They are playing for keeps, and if they win, America will be changed forever—not just economically, but culturally.

The Battle offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise. It is at once a call to action and a crucial redefinition of the political and moral gulf that separates Left and Right in America today. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

My guest on the program today will be Arthur C. Brooks - the president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a non-partisan public policy think tank in Washington, D.C. committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise.