For several years, I tried to be understanding of people who tie school choice to racial segregation. After all, some people after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling did want to use choice to bypass integration. But just as the fact that the worst monsters in human history breathed air does not make air‐breathing evil, supporting freedom, even if some people have used it for ill, does not make freedom heinous. And frankly, I’m at my wits’ end with choice opponents who proclaim dastardly motives and ignore historical reality to smear choice proponents as monstrous.

Enter Nancy MacLean—author of Democracy Unchained—with a Washington Post op‐​ed that we have seen in its basic form many times before. It eschews the history of school choice before Brown; says Milton Friedman was at best unconcerned, at worst sympathetic to, segregationists; and most spectacularly, ignores a little thing called “force” and the gargantuan injustices perpetrated by government‐controlled education, AKA, public schooling.