Today’s Pope Center article is by Max Borders and in it he takes a look at the counter-arguments (at least some of the printable ones; I know that Max also received some vile responses) to his Pope Center paper advocating privatization of the UNC School of the Arts.

Firms like GM demand political support based on the notion that they’re too big to fail, but as Max notes, UNCSA employs the opposite tactic. “We’re too small to matter,” says the Chancellor. Saving a little bit of money by privatizing UNCSA would hardly be noticed in the vast state budget, so just let the inefficiency go on, he argues.

I disagree. Nothing is too big to fail and nothing is too small to matter.

Can’t the defenders of the status quo (that is, government funding for a fine arts school) come up with a better argument than “We’re not wasting very much money”? Apparently not. Unless they respond to the arguments Max has advanced, he has the last word.