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In Defense of the Sovereign Family
Government alone is where law can be found. At least, the American people generally think so. That the state holds a monopoly on the making and enforcement of law...
A Grammar of the Self
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves whether they have any selves. —G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Chesterton was wrong, for that other...
Populism and Parental Choice
Civility is breaking out in a hotly contested sector of the culture war. For thirty years armies of authors have savaged one another over whether society should assure have“not...
Is Choice Still a Choice?
Last November, California voters defeated “Proposition 174.” Had it passed, 174 would have provided scholarships to all school children in an average amount of $2,600 (half the cost of...
Getting Grover’s Goat
Herbert Grover is the increasingly visible state superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin and a man determined that no tax dollar shall be soiled by the hand of a...
School Choice as Simple Justice
The media have at last grasped the fact that test scores and graduation rates improve where schools are freely chosen by families. But what many people still fail to...
Parable from the Prairie
In 1984 a federal court held the public schools of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to be in systematic violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Both the district (KCD)...