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Chicago's Headwinds: City Talk | City Journal

City Talk

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Chicago's Headwinds: City Talk | City Journal

Chicago's Headwinds: City Talk | City Journal
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CRB: Progressively worse

CRB: Progressively worse
The Claremont Review of Books has just published its new (Spring) issue. I reviewed the issue in galley to pick out pieces to roll out for Power Line readers this week (subscribe here for $19.95 and get online access thrown in for free). The issue weighs in at 114 pages. It took me a little longer than usual to get through the issue, which actually arrived in subscribers’ mailboxes late last week. I picked two essays and two reviews that I thought readers should find of interest.
First up is William Voegeli’s essay “Progressively Worse.” Subhead: “Activist government’s crisis of competence.” Bill is author of

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"A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" - conversation with William Voegeli

"Brexit is best understood as a narrow majority of the British people asserting that their national identity was more important than their European identity. But I do think it will have to be resolved one way or another. Europe cannot endure, permanently half national and half supra-national" - William Voegeli pointed out in an conversation with Lénárd Sándor, researcher of the National University of Public Service.
William VOEGELI is senior editor of the Claremont Review of Booksand author of two books: Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State (Encounter, 2010); and The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion (Broadside, 2014). After receiving a doctorate in political science from Loyola University in Chicago he was a program officer for the John M. Olin Foundation. In 2016 Voegeli was the William E. Simon Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy.

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The Raven

The Raven
...the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
- Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show
"...What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven"
-F.A. Hayek -
The Road to Serfdom
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

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CRB: "You're fired!" | Power Line

CRB: “You’re fired!”
We continue our preview of the new (Winter) issue of the Claremont Review of Books with the third of four essays on the outcome of the election (on Friday we will have a fifth, on the Electoral College). Today we turn to the contribution of CRB senior editor William Voegeli. Bill’s contribution to the issue’s essays on the election is “You’re fired!” Subhead: “Understanding Trump’s defeat.” Here is his opening paragraph:
Baseball hall-of-famer Vernon “Lefty” Gomez often said, “I’d rather be lucky than good.” The Occam’s Razor interpretation of the 2020 presidential election is that President Donald Trump was neither lucky nor good enough a politician to secure a second term. His bad luck, in particular, was compounded. The worst pandemic in a century beset the country on his watch, causing a public health crisis that, in turn, generated severe economic and social dislocations. And it did so over the eight months preceding Election Day, the worst possible time for Trump, because the crisis was the dominant question before the nation just as voters were deciding how to mark their ballots.

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About 'Whataboutism': When turnabout is never fair play

About 'Whataboutism': When turnabout is never fair play
By William Voegeli City Journal
Published Jan. 13, 2021
Eric Schulzke: Daydreaming may be the next childhood psychiatric target
Kathryn Moody: Investors, Are You Ready for the Next Global Crisis?
Meghan Streit: Pitching In When Caregivers Need Help
The Kosher Gourmet by Diane Rossen Worthington: Caprese is a light, fresh salad; the perfect quick and easy accompaniment to any summer meal
Jonathan Tobin: Care about the Jewish state's future? Obama, in interview, reveals even more reasons to worry
Alan M. Dershowitz: Confirmed: Needless death and destruction in Gaza
Katie Nielsen: As a mother, I'm all I need to be

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About "Whataboutism" and Political Hypocrisy

Politics and law
The Social Order
Many things are complicated—but not everything. If you condemned the Antifa/Black Lives Matter violence that took place around the country in 2020, as all conservatives did, then you must condemn the Trumpist riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Period.
Suppose, however, you spent last summer applauding the riots, or dissembling about them, or dismissing them. In that case, to deplore last week’s violence credibly is not so simple. If you demand that your political adversaries adhere to a principle, but exempt people whose cause you endorse from having to comply, then that preference you enjoy boasting about is not really a principle. It is not a standard of conduct applicable to all, in other words, but just another rhetorical device used for political combat.

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The Truth About White Flight | City Journal

Economy, finance, and budgets
Speaking at an October 2019 Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle Obama reminisced about growing up in South Shore, a Chicago lakefront neighborhood. Some memories were bitter. The former First Lady, born in 1964, lamented living through “white flight.” As “upstanding families like ours, who were doing everything we were supposed to do . . . moved in,” she said, “white folks moved out.”
In her telling, the whites who abandoned South Shore had motives as obvious as they were ugly, choosing to relocate because “they were afraid of what our families represented.” They voted with their U-Hauls to reject families like hers because of “the color of our skin” and “the texture of our hair,” those “artificial things that don’t even touch on the values that people bring to life. And so, yeah, I feel a sense of injustice.”

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