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"Forget Adam Smith. Whatever Works" ("The Future of Kapitalism," Cover Story, Oct. 27) argued that Washington's response to the financial crisis-a partial nationalization of major banks-may signal a shift away from free -market liberalism toward heavier state intervention in the economy. Readers used the article as a starting point for a debate about the virtues and vices of capitalism and socialism. They also posed another question: Was the crisis a result of hands-off government? Or, as one reader put it, was the real culprit "government interference with free markets via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" ?