Julian Sanchez, on school choice:

["]Sure, actually existing public schools may produce a caste system as rigid and inequitable as anything you'd find in the fevered free-market dystopias that haunt Noam Chomsky's nightmares, but in theory, Marge, in theory, they're engines of equal opportunity.["] This is the progressive version of the intelligent design fallacy—the implicit belief that complex results must be consciously aimed at to be achieved—indeed, that to declare the intent to produce quality and equality vigorously enough in the appropriate magic statue books is sufficient to produce the result: fiat iuxta! Of course, if you actually want to promote greater educational equality, it seems as though one big and obvious thign to do would be to decouple schooling from geography and local property taxes to the extent possible. Maybe I'm excessively sanguine here, but supporting vouchers seems like one of the few ways to make this otherwise politically very difficult project more feasible.