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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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    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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    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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    School Choice Is Sweeping the Nation From Florida to Utah

    By Jeb Bush - Feb. 3, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 11, 2023 ·

    … Last month, Speaker Paul Renner introduced House Bill 1, which will make Florida’s school choice program the most expansive, inclusive and dynamic in the country and will accelerate Florida’s leadership in reimagining education.

    …First, Arizona and West Virginia started nipping at Florida’s heels. Even as Florida made important improvements and expansions to its programs, both of these states enacted universal education savings account programs, or ESAs, surpassing Florida’s reach by delivering educational freedom to all families.

    ESAs are a game changer. They empower families to personalize their children’s education.
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    Why the Right Turned Left

    By Barton Swaim - Feb. 3, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 8, 2023 ·

    “Once you decide that human nature is a fiction, that human beings are merely the sum of impressions made on them by their surrounding culture, then politics acquires an enormous jurisdiction. Consciousness becomes a political project, and the point of politics becomes the control of culture in order to control the imposition of proper consciousnesses.”…

    Progressives really do think, he says, that “consciousness is to be transmitted by the government. And they’re working on it, starting with kindergarten. The academic culture, from the Harvard graduate school of education to kindergarten in Flagstaff, Ariz., is the same now, coast to coast, as far as I can tell.” A core mission of K-12 education, in the progressive view of things, is to inculcate the values of diversity and equity. This Marxian project of consciousness-formation is “all over the country now,” he says. “Think of the DEI statements you’re supposed to make. It’s the threshold step in being considered for a faculty position. You express support for, enthusiastic support for, a political agenda. It’s quite explicit.” 

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    Congress Must Halt Big Tech’s Power Grab

    By William P. Barr - Jan. 22, 2023

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    Principles of Government · February 8, 2023 ·

    All these dominant platforms, though distinctive, pose the same threefold danger. First, they have a chokehold over essential channels of communication and commerce, allowing them to be gatekeepers to the digital world. Second, they vacuum up a trove of personal information about users—what they see, hear, read, think and buy. This raises profound privacy concerns and permits these companies to manipulate users’ beliefs and behavior. Third, they distort the “marketplace of ideas.” The gatekeepers can shape the flow of information to advance their own economic and political agendas. Read More

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    The Democrats’ Refounding of America

    By Christopher Caldwell - Aug 13, 2020

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    Principles of Government · August 13, 2020 ·

    SELECTED PASSAGES …But progressives have begun to describe the country that existed before the 1960s as not just flawed but outright illegitimate—and Democrats are following their lead.  In this view, the civil rights movement wasn’t just a reform but a refounding. That is what makes the anointing of John Lewis as a “Founding Father” …so… Read More

    These excerpts are included to illustrate how the left is transforming our culture, our politics, and our society by outflanking the democratic process through the courts.

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    America’s Right Confronts the 21st Century

    By Christopher DeMuth - Nov. 18, 2022

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    Principles of Government · November 24, 2022 ·

    Christopher DeMuth’s near perfect aspirational agenda to conserve the American nation.
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    Re-establish national borders, reduce our million plus annual illegal entries to zero, and calibrate lawful immigration to the needs of cultural assimilation, social harmony and economic growth
    Abolish all official racial and other group preferences, quotas and gerrymanders
    Liberate the energy sector
    Return to a balanced federal budget outside of wars and other emergencies
    Redirect federal spending from personal entitlements and income transfers to public goods such as national defense, basic research and infrastructure
    Withdraw the collective-bargaining privileges of public-employee unions
    Institute stable currency—not today’s official goal of 2% that quintuples prices in a lifetime, but zero.
    Universal school choice
    Initiatives to mobilize science and enterprise to dominate China in advanced computation, communication and weaponry and to repatriate production of national essentials
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