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Right Thinking: Taxpayers should put students, families before schools Andrew C. Spiropoulos Education establishment apologists who insist that public support for school choice programs is a radical idea don’t seem to know that throughout the world, in nations as disparate as Australia, Chile, India, and Germany, public subsidy of private schooling is the norm, not the exception. In Australia, for example, 35% of students attend publicly supported private schools. In Chile, 53% of students attend a publicly subsidized private school. How about the United States? While 6% of students attend ...

If, as I suspect, at the end of the day, most Oklahomans will conclude that the events of the last year mostly vindicated the judgment of the governor and the

How is it possible, we all wonder, for a state awash in natural resources to run out of energy at precisely the time in which we need it the most?

If, as our newly elected officials claim, we truly wish to live together in relative harmony, the American constitutional regime, faithfully followed, enables

Right Thinking: Tribalism tearing at nation’s seams Andrew C. Spiropoulos The inexcusable mob violence that plagues our nation, reaching even into the sacred precincts of our national legislature, is the concrete manifestation of a profound social illness. If we do not understand and treat the cancer that is eating its way through our communal fabric, it will kill our society. Our problem is not political disagreement – any democracy expects, and should welcome, political disputes, even heated ones. The sickness develops when political conflict hardens into social tribalism or, as sociolo...