If the Library Were Invented Today, They’d Call It Socialism

Zohran Mamdani has a thought experiment about which public services we take for granted — and how they’d fare if someone proposed them today.

Mamdani made the case on Jon Stewart’s podcast last month: pitch a free lending library from scratch today and it gets torn apart as a government handout.

The same goes for the fire department, public schools, and the subway when it’s working.

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