If you favor a government-controlled virtual monopoly in schooling, don’t be surprised when a school board removes Maus, the award-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from an eighth-grade class that covers the Holocaust from a language-arts perspective. If you are appalled by this news from McMinn County, Tennessee, maybe you should favor placing schools in a truly free and competitive marketplace, where entrepreneurs would have no institutional barriers to offering innovative forms of education. (For details see my Separating School and State.)
The West is Losing the Icebreaker Fleet Olympics
America has 1.5 icebreaker left and the rest of the world has more. The Royal Navy is the only competition with America in this race to the bottom with icebreaker loss of capacity.. Royal Navy’s only icebreaker out of action [at a vital point in time, the Falklands...































