20 Yrs of Conservative Success in Cities

Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Conservative ideas are responsible for the two great urban-policy successes of the last quarter-century: the breathtaking drops in crime and in welfare dependency since the early 1990s. You’d never know it from members of the opinion elite, however, who have rarely recognized these successes, much less their provenance. So let’s recapitulate an epic battle about the foundations of social order, a battle that had not just a clear winner but also a clear loser: the liberal policy prescriptions for cities that many opinion makers and politicians still embrace. New York has...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/10/20_yrs_of_conservative_success_in_cities_248407.html

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