June 2018 I recently attended an alumni lunch with the new (2017) headmaster of Boston Latin School. It is the oldest school in America, founded in 1635, one year before Harvard. It is a Boston public school with an active alumni group who have created an endowment of $43 million. It is also a college…
June, 2018 Sometimes, as Ronald Reagan claimed, government is the problem. But other times it is the solution to the problem. There are some things that can be done only by government. Defense is one. Imagine putting the defense of our country out to bid. Would you trust a company like Facebook with control of…
June, 2018 I think I feel the same way about gambling as the typical NRA member feels about guns: I don’t want the government to stop me from having what I want. In fact, I think there is more justification for banning guns than there is for banning gambling. Guns kill. Gambling is largely victimless….
May, 2018 Failure to make a small investment now can lead to serious problems later that can take a long time to fix and cost a lot more money. The rail line from Framingham to Boston is an excellent example of this failing. in the early 50s, when I was around ten, my father, in…
May, 2018 We all want our kids and grandkids to have the best education possible, but it is very hard to measure the effectiveness of a school system. We can look at per-pupil spending but there’s no shortage of inefficient systems that spend a lot of money. Student-teacher ratio is easy to measure, but…