Corporations are a favor target of many liberals, and in a speech last year at New York University, commentator Bill Moyers aimed his rhetorical guns at what he views as the recent rise of “the corporate right” and the resulting societal ills. In a critique of Moyers’ reasoning, George Leef told readers of The Freeman that the argument is flawed in two ways. “Did Big Business tycoons suddenly wake up to the profit-making potential of government favors circa 1970? Hardly. Looking back over U.S. history, one finds that attempts to use the government for private gain began early on and have never let up,” Leef wrote. And second, he explained, the manipulation of politics is equally as prevalent among the left, and is just as harmful. He cited the success of environmental groups at prodding government to set aside land and prevent its development.