This is liberal ‘equality’?
The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy Our national constitution recognizes the...
Read More >Would Milton mind?
In the 1960s, Milton Friedman was my repeated guest on “Problems of the City” on Chicago radio KQED-KFMF, and later,...
Read More >Democracy in action
“I’m Sally Common. My spouse, Bill, and I began married life in a cozy apartment on the east side of...
Read More >Test scores plus responsibility
“Liberty means responsibility.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman The school choice movement continues to plead its case by focusing...
Read More >The pod: problem or opportunity?
Were we still school-parenting, I’m confident that Marylyn and I would be “podding” our five kids – some here at...
Read More >Against choice for the poor
For more than half a century, I have listened to diatribes against empowering lower-income parents to choose a school for...
Read More >Truth, freedom, choice
See! A disenchanted nation Spring like day from desolation; To Truth its state is dedicate, And Freedom leads it forth,...
Read More >Comes the moment to decide
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good...
Read More >The silence of my clan
“When awful darkness and silence reign” -- Edw. Lear, “The Dong with the Luminous Nose” In my 40-plus years of...
Read More >A win-win for Darwin
What happens to the mind of the school child who each day dwells in the land of Charles Darwin, focused...
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