Let us accept your dictum on New Labor’s fundamental misconception, “what citizen-consumers lack is not democracy or community but market power” (”Consuming Passions,” May 10, 2003), and let us apply it to higher education, which has recently been in the limelight due to some silly remarks by the minister in charge. If students are consumers and universities producers of education, your dictum spells privatization of universities. Give students vouchers and let the market forces rip. Amen.