The Age of Choice A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld Princeton, 480 pp., $37. EARLY IN THE AGE OF CHOICE ...

Rosenfeld tracks an expanding ideology of what she calls “freedom-as-choice” from the late 1600s ... Alexander wrote in 1779 that the new activity of “shopping, as it is called,” was ...

School choice is good for families, students and the economy. When Congress seeks ways to fund national priorities, it would ...