In his column today, Jacob Hornberger argues, in opposition to a New York Times article by Sheldon Danziger, that we should ditch the war on poverty. To be more precise, we should ditch the government’s war on poverty. That has been about as much a success as, say, the war in Afghanistan. Instead, we should leave anti-poverty efforts to civil society — charitable associations and that most potent of anti-poverty programs, free enterprise. (Not the crony capitalism that so many people think is “the free market.”)