…in a really good piece on Egypt and the sad state of the place (and its prospects for positive change), Human Events’ John Hayward notes this:

Sadly, even as they have drawn close to ridding themselves of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian people walk on soil that has been poisoned against the flowering of true liberty, because liberty absolutely requires the private ownership of capital, and Mubarak’s corruption has taught them to distrust it.