Here’s the multicultural sales pitch: put people with different histories, religions, loyalties, taboos, grievances, and political interests into the same country, remove the common culture, declare every inherited standard oppressive, and then wait for everyone to become interchangeable citizens united by an enthusiastic commitment to municipal recycling. It’s a beautiful idea, provided you have never…
Tag: Administration
Too Late For Reform
A healthy political order works the way any durable human institution works. It has a purpose that can be named without embarrassment. It has offices with real authority, boundaries with real meaning, and a chain of responsibility that can be followed from decision to consequence without getting lost in fog. It produces outcomes that ordinary…