An Idea Whose Time Never Came

Published January 15, 2016 6:25am ET



G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” The same can be said of a more down-to-earth but still-radical idea: The late Jack Kemp’s antipoverty proposal for urban enterprise zones was found politically difficult and never tried.

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