Musical Theater And The Social Safety Net

I hadn’t listened to the Evita cast recording for a while, so I’d forgotten how great “And the Money Kept Rolling In” is at laying out the case that badly managed private philanthropy is no substitute for a durable social safety net:

Now I sort of want Andrew Lloyd Webber to write a musical about how Che Guevara took the lessons of the Perón regime way too much to heart, though it would probably be pretty depressing and there’d be less fun ’40s fashion porn.