Tennessee’s legislature recently enacted a bill requiring public schools to teach the “virtues of capitalism . . . as compared to other . . . economic systems such as communism and socialism.” I would have voted for the bill, I suppose, but not because I think it will get at the root of what is driving the movement in our nation toward overt wealth redistribution. In fact, I hope, were I still in office, I would have said on the Senate floor what follows, namely, that capitalism, as understood today, rests on the same worldview as socialism and communism and, consequently, the bill will not have the effect hoped for.