Victor Davis Hanson: Why Aren't Young Christians ‘Default’ Free-Market Supporters Anymore? | Mark Tooley

Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words

Jennifer Hayne

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Without a free market, the U.S. would not have “liberty,” “prosperity,” or “economic growth.” Young religious people who are not on the left used to support free markets “by default,” but that’s no longer the case, explains Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. He joined Jack Fowler on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” to discuss the issue. “Several years ago, I led a book study for some of our interns. … We read ‘The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism’ by Michael Novak, a wonderful book … explaining the spirituality and morality of capitalism. And they were not persuaded. … So again, even with Christian young people, Catholic or Protestant, you have to explain what free markets are and what the moral basis is for them.” 👉America is worth preserving. Do your part and act now by going to https://www.heritage.org/beautiful 👉Claim your liberty offer of up to $5,000 in free metals with allegiance gold by going to https://www.ProtectWithVictor.com 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	Get started today at Vantor.com. Well, hello ladies and hello gentlemen. Welcome to Victor Davis Hansen, in his own words. I'm Jack Fowler, man fortunate enough to host this show. As many of you know, Victor is recuperating from his surgeries.
0:57.0	And some might have already noticed that Victor is starting to stick his toe back in the water here.
1:03.7	He's recorded a show already. I'm going to record a show with him tomorrow.
1:07.5	But we're going to get you four shows a week.
1:10.2	And one of the things Victor
1:11.1	had wanted done, as you know, is that in his absence, bring on some smart, worthwhile people.
1:19.5	I think worthwhile is a compliment, Mark, smart, engage, that have something truly important
1:26.8	to share.
1:30.1	And Mark Tully is such a person.
1:41.2	Mark is the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, has been the president there for, I think, 17 years, 18 years or so, Mark, thereabouts.
1:41.6	Yeah.
1:46.3	So I'm so pleased that you're with us, And we're going to talk today somewhat about the Institute, but we're going to focus on the state of free market,
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