In 2004 businessman Malik Fernando bought Castlereagh, a decrepit bungalow in the terraced, emerald hills of Sri Lanka’s sprawling tea country. The structure had no roof. “It was in absolute shambles,” he recalls. “There were cattle roaming through the whole house.” But it had one irresistible asset: “It was what was available,” he says, shrugging and welcoming me to the …

In two essays (to be had on Flypaper and his own blog), Kevin Kosar argues that the Essential and Secondary Schooling Act of 1965 is an anti-poverty degree and not a civil rights regulation, as President Obama and the secretary of Schooling, John King, have said. It’s far disingenuous at first-class to say that the ESEA, which presents supplemental price …