Editor's Cut: "Social Security, which provides a public good: the minimum financial security of retirees, is only the latest example. Faith-based initiatives were the privatization of government social welfare programs to religious institutions. Vouchers were the privatization of public education to religious schools. Drilling in the Artic National Preserve is the privatization of public lands for corporate profit. Even national security, the ultimate public good, has been partially privatized: 'Security contractors' (mercenaries in the old parlance) were interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib, before the scandal broke."

(Via The Nation Weblogs.)