In his Friday column Sheldon Richman discusses the idea of market failure, which is the justification for many coercive governmental interventions in our lives. Market failures are exceedingly rare, but government action suffers — almost without exception — to its own sort of failure. Politics is just a bad way to deciding and controlling things.

What the United States badly needs is for a respected “liberal” to say that and thereby make it safe for other liberals to say that it’s folly to expect good outcomes from politics — whether it’s health care, the environment, education, or anything else.