Metaphors can be helpful things. But I’m about to go against one. Why, it’s gonna be the gunfight at the O.K. Corral!

A prominent metaphor that’s been in school choice debates for far too long is that any choice program not larded with regulations is the “wild west.” I’ve heard it for years, but it was crack economist John Merrifield who last night spurred (a metaphor and a pun!) me to action.