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What Made American Universities Great. “Ivy League institutions rose to greatness only after being cut off from state aid and meddling.”

What’s the Matter With California? William Vogeli explains how the “big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm” is ruining California’s appeal.

Dave Barry Looks Back on 2009. Choice quote: “Washington, rejecting ‘business as usual,’ finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it.”

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Robert Samuelson on the Public Option. “The promise of the public plan is a mirage. Its political brilliance is to use free-market rhetoric (more ‘choice’ and ‘competition’) to expand government power.”

Unlearning the Lessons of State Health Reforms. “Despite these state-level failures, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pushing forward a slate of similar reforms. Unlike most high-school science fair participants, they seem unaware that the point of doing experiments is to identify what actually works. Instead, they’ve identified what doesn’t—and decided to do it again.”

Just How Relevant Is Political Science?

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