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    Ex-Liberal Fred Siegel Saw New York Fall and Rise

    By Steven Malanga - May 9, 2023

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    Principles of Government · May 16, 2023 ·

    The “riot ideology” that Fred Siegel described in his 1997 book, “The Future Once Happened Here,” played a significant role in the decline of America’s cities in the 1970s and ’80s. Siegel, who died Sunday at 78, wrote that the riot ideology rested on the assumption that “the sins of racism” justified violence and criminality—and that only federal spending could solve those problems.

    As a New Yorker, Siegel had witnessed the city’s rapid deterioration under Mayor John Lindsay, whose “faith in a free market of morals” led to a vast expansion of crime and social disorder. Siegel and other conservative intellectuals at the Manhattan Institute argued that the sharp rise in urban chaos wasn’t inevitable or irreversible.

    In fact, disorder was a choice. By cutting police and sanitation budgets to boost welfare spending, officials had sparked an exodus of New York’s middle class. The worse things got, the more the city invested in addressing the supposed underlying causes of crime rather than re-establishing order. Siegel, who defined cities not by their government-dependent populations but by their achievements, called this “rewarding failure.” Read More

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    Be Afraid of Nuclear War, Not Climate Change

    By Bjorn Lomborg - March 29, 2022

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    Principles of Government · May 5, 2023 ·

    Weeks before thermobaric rockets rained down on Ukraine, the chattering classes at the World Economic Forum declared “climate action failure” the biggest global risk for the coming decade. On the eve of war, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry fretted about the “massive emissions consequences” of Russian invasion and worried that the world might forget about the risks of climate change… Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Energy and Environmental Policy

    Biden Is the Perfect Democratic President

    By Daniel Henninger - April 26, 2023

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    Principles of Government · April 30, 2023 ·

    The non-compos presidential model gives the party’s left free rein.

    A beside-the-point president is the best thing that has ever happened to the progressive centralization project. But its success in 2024 depends on whether Republicans back Trump or not.

    President Biden won’t negotiate, doesn’t do press conferences, does only canned events, can’t maintain focus, has minimal factual grasp and his foreign-policy activity is totally ceremonial. So naturally he’s running for a second term. With the total support of the Democratic Party in Congress. Read More

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    Biden Is Transformational, and Not in a Good Way

    By Phil Gramm and Pat Toomey - April 24, 2023

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    Principles of Government · April 30, 2023 ·

    His regulatory barrage and failed Progressive-era policies imperil economic exceptionalism in the U.S.

    From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, from the Permian Basin to the Chicago Loop, an iron net of regulation has descended across the American economy. Churchill’s metaphor conveys the magnitude of the onslaught and the peril it poses to the American economy and our freedom. We face not an errant regulator or an officious bureaucrat, but a sea change in the economy’s regulatory ecosystem. The executive branch and its regulatory agencies are unbound by the laws they are supposed to uphold and hostile to the industries they regulate, undermining the political accountability at the heart of our republican government. Read More

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    DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America

    By Tunku Varadarajan - March 28, 2023

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    Principles of Government · April 4, 2023 ·

    After the Stanford episode, Ilya Shapiro sounds a warning: The threat to ‘dismantle existing structures’ is an idle one in English class. But in legal education it targets individual rights and equal treatment under the Constitution.

    But those jobs also have real-world power, the exercise of which could eventually cumulate into “regime change,” Mr. Shapiro warns. “I’m not trying to be hyperbolic or bombastic. If you read critical legal studies, of which critical race theory is a subset, you’ll read about the need to ‘fundamentally dismantle existing structures,’ to ‘change the way social hierarchies operate.’ . . . The goal is to fundamentally change the way that American society operates.” Read More

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    The Military Should Reject DEI and CRT

    By Patrick H. Brady and Mike Waltz - March 24, 2023

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    Principles of Government · March 28, 2023 ·

    The U.S. military faces a self-inflicted threat to its preparedness to deter, fight and win wars. An essential, battle-tested element of military culture—colorblindness—is being undermined. Unless the trend is reversed, our national security will be at increased risk. The reversal could be done at no cost, requiring only a policy decision and the reorientation of relevant training.

    At the Air Force Academy, cadets have been taught that the term “colorblind” is offensive and that it’s preferable to be “color conscious.” Rather than teach future military leaders that “colorblindness” is a cultural imperative, the Pentagon unnecessarily focuses on, and even elevates, race and maintains an obsessive focus on racial demographics. Worse, it uses racial preferences in officer accession programs and sometimes in command, promotion and schooling selections. Such practices aren’t merely antithetical to true selflessness and the law; they also threaten military cultural norms like unit cohesion and the forces’ “selfless servant warrior ethos.”

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    Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then?

    By Tunku Varadarajan , Nathan Myhrvold - Feb. 17, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 26, 2023 ·

    “There are activists who oppose funding or experiments. There’s no evidence I can see that many of the people involved in the climate debate want a solution.”…

    Geoengineering would appear to be the application of science par excellence. …

    “Opponents worry that once you have geoengineering, people won’t make sacrifices to cut emissions. They want a sword of Damocles hanging over humanity as a means to force us to follow their ideology.”….. In climate change, he says, this moralistic attitude takes the following form: “I don’t like aspects of our society, I don’t like technology, I don’t like capitalism, and this is nature’s retribution. And so we have to change the way we live.” Such beliefs “have become a very powerful disincentive, particularly for academic researchers.”

    …He calls it “insane” not to fund such research and invokes another analogy: heart surgery and stents.

    “You could imagine a world in which cardiology doesn’t exist because the medical profession said, ‘You fat bastards. You did it to yourselves. We’re not going to help you.’ ” Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Energy and Environmental Policy

    DEI Spells Death for the Idea of a University

    By Matthew Spalding - Feb. 10, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 13, 2023 ·

    Wherever this agenda is allowed to take root, free expression and academic integrity are doomed.

    The first object of government, James Madison tells us in Federalist 10, is the protection of “the diversity in the faculties of men.” By diversity, Madison meant different opinions to be encouraged to preserve liberty. Equity is an ancient legal concept of justice in particular cases, developed over centuries of English common-law practice. …

    All good words with respectable origins. Yet in true Orwellian fashion, they have been redefined.

    Diversity is no longer a term to describe the breadth of our differences but a demand to flatter and grant privileges to purportedly oppressed identity groups. Equity assigns desirable positions based on race, sex and sexual orientation rather than character, competence and merit. Read More

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    Yes, Use the Debt Ceiling to Control Government Spending

    By Phil Gramm and Michael Solon - Feb. 1, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 12, 2023 ·

    The upcoming debt-ceiling vote poses the first real test of the new but small Republican majority in the House. The Biden administration and Democrats will have little incentive to negotiate on the debt ceiling unless House Republicans are capable of passing a debt ceiling that contains reforms that the general public views as being reasonable and responsible. Simply casting an easy “no” vote on the debt ceiling will spawn a crisis that puts Democrats back in control of spending as Republicans are ultimately forced to break ranks and join the Democrats in raising the debt ceiling. Republicans can govern or protest, but if they protest, the Democrats will govern, the spending spree will continue and the debt will keep ballooning.

    The challenge now for Republicans in the House is to put together 218 Republican votes to pass a debt ceiling with spending constraints that will be popular enough with the American public to force Mr. Biden and the Democrats to negotiate or acquiesce. There is a clear target for spending retrenchment that is timely, reasonable and appealing. Read More

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    Congress Once Constrained Government Debt

    By John F. Cogan - Jan. 23, 2023 

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    Principles of Government · February 12, 2023 ·

    In 1920, lawmakers curbed spending by putting a single committee in charge of the overall budget. Some 50 years ago, Congress voted to insulate itself from external discipline, creating what one critic called ‘congressional government.’ The U.S. Treasury began taking steps last week to avoid default on the nation’s $31.4 trillion national debt. The government… Read More

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