The point isn’t that there are no subpar charter schools—there are—but it’s clear to the author that any honest assessment of the data shows that school choice is a boon for groups that have long been poorly served by the system. It’s also clear that successful charter schools are a threat to the current power balance that allows the vested interests of adults who run public education to trump what’s best for students. As Mr. Sowell reminds us, “schools exist for the education of children. Schools do not exist to provide iron-clad jobs for teachers, billions of dollars in union dues for teachers unions, monopolies for educational bureaucracies, a guaranteed market for teachers college degrees or a captive audience for indoctrinators.”
Phil Magness busts myths about the U.S. covid lockdown.
Arthur Diamond makes the case for human-challenge trials.
John Stossel is correct: “Progressive” policies keep failing; we need much-freer markets.
Eric Boehm remembers John Lewis. A slice:
Lewis, who died on Friday at the age of 80, was a Democratic congressman from Georgia for the final 33 years of his life. But his greatest accomplishments came when he was a political outsider. As one of the youngest leaders of the civil rights movement, Lewis spoke powerfully against government-sanctioned injustice—and suffered for exercising his right to speak.
Nick Gillespie talks with Kmele Foster.
Russ Roberts’s latest EconTalk podcast, with Brown University’s Glenn Loury, is splendid.
