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Rude But Right On Crime
Heather Mac Donald examines President Trump’s unusually direct responses to violent crime and what they reveal about public order and governance in American cities.
Heather Mac Donald
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Trump Forces The New York Times’s Hand On Crime
The New York Times accuses Donald Trump of racial insensitivity over his Washington, D.C. crime crackdown while long downplaying black homicide victims and opposing the National Guard deployment that coincided with a sharp drop in murders.
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The West Can Protect Itself From Terrorism and Urban Violence
Author Heather Mac Donald questions claims of systemic racism, arguing cultural factors — not discrimination — drive disparities.
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For European Elites, It’s Still 'See No Islamist Evil'
A day after an Islamist rampage against a British synagogue and two days after the indictment in Berlin of three suspected Hamas members for planning terror attacks in Germany, German chancellor Friedrich Merz and French president Emanuel Macron...
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An Ideology Whose Logic Leads To Murder
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Ballet Virtuosos Demonstrate Triumph of Culture Over Ideology
American Contemporary Ballet premiered Lincoln Jones’s new work, The Euterpides, with an original score by prodigy Alma Deutscher, blending tradition and theatrical flair amid the chaos of Los Angeles unrest.
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Trump Is Right To Send The National Guard To Washington
The era of defining crime deviancy down is over. That is the most important message to come out of President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C.
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Broken Windows policing: The key to urban renewal
If Boston is serious about urban renewal, it may want to bring back one of the now defunct policies of the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino: Broken Windows policing. Broken Windows theory holds that enforcing public order laws — such as laws against graffiti, trespassing, and illegal street vending — reduces both