Brown v. Board is one of those cases that was decided the right way, but for the wrong reasons. I couldn’t agree more that it was unconstitutional for states to maintain “separate but equal” school systems. The problem is that the Court’s decision wasn’t grounded in the Constitution at all, but rather in the murky sociology of Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish social scientist (who, strangely enough, shared the 1974 Nobel Prize with F.A. Hayek). Now it’s quite possible that the “let’s use law to make things right” notion would have swept in anyway, but the Supreme Court’s decision, concluding that integration was a social good rather than that segregation was illegal, ensured that it would.