https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/02/12/we-are-all-illiterates-now/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 04:59:29 -0400<![CDATA[Newsweek magazine, which has given us many of the most damaging deceptions about America in recent years (remember the &#8220;Koran-Down-the-Toilet&#8221; hoax?), now weighs in with a pretentious and embarrassingly ignorant cover story, &#8220;We Are All Socialists Now.&#8221;  To be sure, the basic theme&#8211;that the huge &#8220;stimulus&#8221; and the big big big TARP is leading once-capitalist America down the dangerous road to socialism&#8211;is not limited to the skinny weekly.  You hear it all over the place, from Right to Left, from talk radio to the evening news (or so I am told;  personally, I haven&#8217;t watched an evening news broadcast since 1987).]]>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:38:17 -0500<![CDATA[Michael Ledeen]]>https://pjmedia.com/michael-ledeen/2009/02/12/we-are-all-illiterates-now-n186362