The spectre of gen Z socialism is haunting the world … according to the Economist

‘In the United States, the Feeding America organization reports, one in five children “don’t have enough to eat”.’ Photograph: Sven Hoppe/AP

A spectre is haunting Europe and America – the spectre of gen Z socialism.

That’s the urgent warning from the Economist in a new cover-story editorial, How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism. Alarmed by a youthful threat to the established order, the magazine is calling for heightened vigilance from defenders of private enterprise.