And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

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Anne Rathbone Bradley, George and Sally Mayer, fellow for economic education, vice president

of academic affairs at the Fund for American Studies,

and economic professor at the Institute for World Politics.

And thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

Matt, thank you for having me.

Absolutely.

As we talk, New Yorkers are heading to the polls. And they're going to vote for a few different

candidates, but it seems the frontrunner certainly is this Zoran Mamdani, the socialist candidate

for New York City Mayor. And he wants the Big Apple to go into the grocery store business.

Mom Donny's proposed pilot program aims to open five groceries, one in each borough, funded

and operated by the city, funded by the city and its taxpayers, of course.

What could possibly go wrong, Anne? What could possibly go

wrong? Well, everything? Is that to doomsday of an answer? No, not at all. You write a great

op-ed in the Washington Post, and you refer to, you know, we have, we have some history here behind us.

The old Soviet Union can tell you all about that, the failed experiment of state-run, you know,

enterprises.

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