Inequality Is The Point

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

The U.S. Supreme Court’s July 14 decision to allow President Donald Trump and his secretary of education, Linda McMahon, to proceed with dismantling the U.S. Department of Education came with no explanation from the conservative majority that issued the ruling. It didn’t need to.

Indeed, if the court’s conservative majority had provided an explanation, it would likely have been the kind of rhetorical sleight of hand that Justice Elena Kagan described...