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Tools for radicals: Why younger generations have turned against free markets and American traditions

By Jeremiah Poff
Published December 5, 2025 5:15am ET
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In January 2020, a few weeks before the entire world experienced one of the greatest social and economic disruptions in memory in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic, a billionaire wrote an email.

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