In an interview with conservative political commentator and best-selling author Michael Knowles released at the end of June, Vice President JD Vance repudiated the free-market elements of the pre-MAGA Republican agenda. He bemoaned the influence of many names associated with free-market ideology, including economist Milton Friedman, philosopher Ayn Rand, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “I do think that, for our friends who are on the more laissez faire side of the American right, in hindsight, part of why Milton Friedman’s ideas made more sense in the 1980s is because they were...