Every argument for freedom eventually runs into the same practical objection. If anyone can start a school, a land trust, a clinic, or a cooperative, how is anyone supposed to know which ones are any good? A parent choosing a […]
Frédéric Bastiat's most famous essay isn't about schooling at all. A boy breaks a shopkeeper's window, and the crowd that gathers finds a silver lining: the […]
Ask someone why the state runs the schools and the answer arrives instantly, before the question has even finished: of course it does, who else would? That instant, unreflective quality is itself worth noticing. Almost nothing else this large — […]
There is a form of rule that never passes a law, never posts a guard, and never asks for consent, and it governs more of an ordinary life than the legislature does. It arrives before memory starts, in the shape […]
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