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October 09, 2005
A Left-Wing Case for Vouchers
Policy debates have a tendency to get stale. Lines are drawn, people choose sides, and then the intelligensia of each side goes to war with articles, studies and op-ed pieces. I'll admit, I'm a policy geek and I find all of it fascinating. But even more fascinating are those instances when someone re-envisions the issue at hand in a way that dissolves many of the bulwarks of opposition.
I came across such an instance today, in an article that makes an environmental case for the broad adoption of school vouchers. Daniel Akst is by no means promoting a conservative case for vouchers. In fact, some conservatives may become somewhat nauseous as they look on in horror at the contortions Akst puts their cherished policy goal through. But such improbable contortions are necessary to achieve ambitious ends. When seeking to build a critical mass of support for a far-reaching policy goal such as school vouchers, the ideological purity of allies should always be a distant second to their passion for the cause.
Posted by Audi Partem Alteram at October 9, 2005 10:41 PM
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