The drumbeat to enslave us never lets up. A few years ago, in my essay, "National Service: A Vicious Concept—And Its Antidote," I wrote about the Obama administration's drive to impose mandatory national service on all Americans. One of the few good thing that you can say about the economic crisis is that it created so many new problems during the past four years that attention was temporarily diverted from this proposal—although it is alive and continues to grow in our government-run educational system.