The Grand Experiment: New York is Rerunning a 100-Year-Old Failure and Calling It Progress. And the Failure is the Feature.
I am a science teacher. So let me start with the one word in this entire disaster that made the hair on my arms stand up.
Experiment.
The mayor of New York City stood in front of a cheering crowd, gestured at a plan to build government-owned grocery stores with taxpayer money, and said — I am paraphrasing, but only barely — may the most affordable grocery store win. He called it a grand experiment. He looked at eight and a half million people and told them it was ABOUT TIME to run one.