The True Definition of a Socialist

Love him or loathe him, Conrad Black is always good value. His column in yesterday’s National Post is delightful, as Mr. Black describes how rewarding he has found tutoring illiterate inmates in the low-security facility in Florida which he currently calls home. This is writing to be savoured, for example ““the 32-year-old small-time drug dealer who had six children with five women, none of them attached by the bourgeois relic of matrimony” or “it pains me to verge on platitudes, but life’s rewards do sometimes come in strange ways and unexpected places”. Pointing out that he “would not meet the usual definition of a socialist”, Mr. Black is living proof that those of us who quest for education reform are the true friends of the disadvantaged and disenfranchised.

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