Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has floated his proposal for a successor to the flawed “Robin Hood” system of Texas public school finance, and while I applaud his initiative in doing so, I believe that his plan, along with most of the other ideas that have been suggested, approaches the problem from the wrong direction. Put […]
Archives for May 2003
Why We Fought
My friend Stuart Schube related to me some conversations he has had recently with friends preparing for the upcoming Jewish Day of Remembrance observing the Holocaust. To one of them he commented (and I paraphrase), “If George W. Bush had been President in 1933 and available to respond to the Nazi threat in 1933-39, there […]
Voice Vs. Choice
Lately I have been reminded from several directions of the efficacy in various applications of the concept of “public choice theory” as developed by economics Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan. In a recent issue of “Imprimis”, Buchanan expounds on this theory, which to me is nothing more complicated than one that espouses a market-based system […]
Moynihan Remembered
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of my favorite liberals and public servants, recently went on to his reward. My friend Matt Ladner sent me an excerpt from Moynihan’s book, Miles to Go, which is very instructive about him as well as liberal thought as we have come to know it. It seems that Moynihan and a […]