Writing in the New York Times on Saturday, an impressive theology scholar offered an unimpressive take on socialism.

In his very first paragraph, David Bentley Hart inadvertently explained socialism’s critical flaw: its arrogant trust that government knows better than individuals. Hart decries how, at “smallish airports” in the Midwest, travelers are caught between Fox News’ “bestial din” and the “T.S.A.’s gauntlet of gropers.”