Recommended reading

• Education: Meet the former leader of a teacher union who has changed his tune. Also read this account of one teacher's experience in the New York City public school system.

• Quote of the day: "When many policymakers see a potential market failure, they almost inevitably call for government intervention to restrain market excesses. Yet when government fails, interestingly enough, the proposed policy solution is often the same: more government intervention." Yep.

• The case for reducing the corporate tax rate is so compelling that even some members of the left are now pushing for it.

• Steven Landsburg points out the obvious to Paul Krugman. Or at least what is obvious to many of us.

• True story: local government declares an area to be blighted, uses eminent domain to kick people out of their homes, and then turns the area into a dump.