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My younger brother Fred, labeled as intellectually and developmentally disabled (IDD), was sent in 1956 to the Willowbrook State School, where he resided for 16 years. Had that infamous institution never been shut down, Fred would not be the person he is today: writing poetry, curiously asking how radio waves come out of speakers, and understanding that his vote counts.

Accepting Crime, Abolishing Punishment - Christine Rosen, Commentary Magazine

Accepting Crime, Abolishing Punishment Liberals are falling into a political trap of their own devising, and they’re going to reverse decades of safety along the way American liberalism is in a strong position to dominate cultural and political life in the United States for the near future, with Joe Biden in the White House and the Democratic Party in control of both houses of Congress. The cultural and media elites are, for now, united in their conviction that they have saved democracy and that the future is theirs. And yet, a serious challenge to this new liberal ascendancy could be coming, one similar in kind to the circumstances that knocked liberalism back on its heels in the 1960s its inability to address or mitigate an increase in crime, particularly violent crime, and arrest the decline of civic order. In their eagerness to remake the criminal-justice system, defund police, and abolish prisons, today’s liberal leaders and activists appear to have forgotten the lessons