The author, a lifelong Catholic, expresses concern over the alignment of the Catholic Right with President Trump's policies.

“Capitalism will be part of the story ... But the notion that the United States is a libertarian fantasyland is itself a fantasy. I mean, by the Hammer of Thor, every summer we get stories ...

Cohen concludes that “‘libertarian’ capitalism sacrifices liberty to capitalism, a truth its advocates are able to deny only because they are prepared to abuse the language of freedom.” ...

Although libertarian ideology has mass appeal ... associate libertarianism with social free-will and free market capitalism.

Examples include the old USSR, Argentina and Cuba. Examples of success with libertarian capitalism where at least some measure of individual freedom is available include the new China, South Korea ...