As more people, both in the U.S. and around the world, wake up to the reality of spiraling inflation, it becomes clear just how much of the overspending
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For decades Americans and Brits have looked across the Atlantic at one another, seeking omens of the political future. Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberal turn in 1979 was matched by the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Bill Clinton’s “Third Way” presidency begun in 1993 presaged Tony Blair’s victory in 1997. The earthquake of the 2016 Brexit vote was followed just four and a half months later by the equally shocking victory of Donald Trump.
Now Americans even take interest in U.K. local elections. Last week, about a quarter of England’s local councilors, half its mayors, the parliaments of both Scotland and Wales, and the London Assembly were all simultaneously up for a vote. A U.K. parliamentary by-election in the North East port town of Hartlepool was also on offer. The race results can be summed up in the lesson of the Parable of the Talents: “to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance.” In England Boris Johnson’s governing Co
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In the United States, the interest groups most strongly associated with neo-Marxist ideas would have been forced to operate more efficiently long ago, had they not assumed the mantle of social justice warriors. What American leftists like to describe as their commitment to greater fairness and equality almost always turns out to be a superficial rebranding of permanent dysfunction.
Consider, for example, how teacher unions have for decades used left-wing ideology to protect an education system that continues to rank poorly in comparison with other advanced countries. Despite adopting never-ending leftist palliatives over the decades such as bilingual instruction and Common Core, results from the 2019 biannual National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test of fourth and eighth graders show low-performing U.S. students have made absolutely no gains over the last 30 years. COVID shutdowns are likely to worsen the situation.