[...] everyone knows that American infrastructure—what used to be called our public works, or just our bridges and railways, once the envy of the world—has now been stripped bare, and is being stripped ever barer."The Plot Against Trains," Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, May 15, 2015. Because it's emblematic.
What is less apparent, perhaps, is that the will to abandon the public way is not some failure of understanding, or some nearsighted omission by shortsighted politicians. It is part of a coherent ideological project.
(This is the same strain of "conservative" that goes into spasms about "anarchists.")
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