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Transatlantic audio: 'Denmark isn't socialist,' on Acton Line

    On this episode of Acton Line, Caroline Roberts speaks with Acton's senior editor, Rev. Ben Johnson, about a new study released by a free market think tank in Denmark, claiming that Denmark isn't actually socialist. Although Denmark is regularly cited as a country whose socialist policies have done good, this isn't the whole story. Denmark isn't technically socialist, and the current welfare state program has done harm despite what you may have heard. After that, Alan R. Crippen, II, Chief of Exhibits, Programs, and Public Engagement for the Faith & Liberty Discovery Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, joins Daniel Hugger on the show. Crippen and Hugger discuss the legacy of William Penn, the Quaker son of an aristocratic Royal Navy Admiral who gave America its first successful experiment of liberty – Pennsylvania.


    Read "Denmark to American leftists: We’re not socialist," by Rev. Ben Johnson

    Read the report on socialism in Denmark 

    Learn more about the Center for Political Studies in Denmark

    Register here to attend the lunch and lecture event on William Penn and the American Experiment of Liberty

    Learn more about William Penn

    Featured image credit: foto-select / Shutterstock.com.