A Head-Scratcher from a Master

I bow to no one in my admiration of Dan Henninger and my loyalty to the Wonderland column, and yet I am astonished...astonished...that today's column addressing "youth unemployment" has not a single reference to "minimum wage laws". It's still a compelling column, but in over 800 words Henninger does not utter the three most relevant words to the subject at hand..."minimum," "wage," and "law." Now, to be fair, Dan is really talking about "career opportunity" for educated and/or ambitious youth, not summer jobs for teens, but they are part and parcel. Those summer jobs for teens that aren't there contribute every bit to the dismal youth unemployment picture that Dan laments. Minimum wage laws are the gateway drug to the stagnation-inducing policies of "old Europe" and the new United States under Obama.