Socialism (communism), as is being packaged in New York City, can...work? For a season. The appeal to “affordability” and “free stuff” has a strong draw. The glossy brochure presents free transportation, state-run grocery stores, rent freezes, and the confiscation of unused housing. Of course, long-term, these ideas have been tried before andhave failed miserably, as the Kansas City–run grocery store just failed, and as state-run stores failed in the Soviet Union. Seizing the means of production and price controls, as Zohran Mamdani has proposed, are responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese, Cambodians, Venezuelans, Cubans,...