Derb – I am sincerely open to correction here , as I find the British political lexicon at times unwieldy. But in my recent trip to the UK, I was told on several occasions by smart political types that there’s an important distinction between British Toryism and American Conservatism, as the Tories are much more invested in a Disraelian noblese oblige toward the lower classes (One Nation politics and all that). This wasn’t really news to me, though I thought these finer distinctions had been whittled down over the years. I was not trying to say that Toryism = Socialism, rather I was simply trying to suggest that I think one can — and should — make a conservative case for universal education in the name of the common good, and that I am vulnerable to the charge that this is what I am doing.