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Diversity Agenda Vs. Learning Class Warfare Taxes Threats to Free Speech Online What Will It Take to Control Spending? SPRING 2019 Freedom Is for Everyone N THIS ISSUE, YOU WILL FIND oppressors to the oppressed (primarily racial Heather Mac Donald (p. 16) discussing “the and sexual minorities) is the only just purpose I trashing of Western civilization” on college of politics, and if individual rights get in the campuses. Picking up that theme, Mike Gon- way of that project, then they must be shoved zalez (p. 32) identifies the entitlement state aside. Likewise, GDP growth, debt, deficits, and as a major motivator of those same corrupt- other traditional metrics of good policy matter ing agendas. not when weighed against the imperatives of A few pages away you can find Dan Mitchell equality of condition. (p. 26) employing the concept of deadweight loss In the conservative understanding, the to explain why everybody loses when tax rates preservation of individual liberty is the only are high, and Jonathan Bydlak (p. 21) making the legitimate purpose of government, and limiting case that controlling federal spending requires political power via a constitution of checks and budget process reforms. balances and rights is the means by which liberty Something for everybody—or at least is preserved. everybody who likes bad news. Read in While the conservative concern for conjunction, these articles lead to a dire constitutional rigor may seem distant from summation of our current situation: the everyday struggles of people, it at least has Raising taxes will harm the economy and lead this advantage over the progressive mania for to even more government spending (and deficits equality: It does not create insoluble conflicts and debt); but government spending is already over who is more oppressed than whom. rising because organized interest groups value Progressives want more minorities admitted such spending and the political process rewards to universities—as long as those minorities politicians for delivering it; meanwhile, the are not highly qualified Asian-Americans. very existence of the entitlement state induces Progressives want economic justice—but citizens to see their interests in terms of what primarily justice for the inner cities, not government gives them; that, in turn, encourages so much for the hayseeds up in the holler. citizens to identify as members of interest Progressives oppose bigotry—unless it’s bigotry groups, often organized around some concept (and worse) perpetrated against homosexuals of victimhood, ensuring that constituencies for in the name of Islam. Progressives want to spending remain powerful; and all along, rising stand with the historically oppressed—as long generations are being taught that freedom is as the historically oppressed are not Jews a con designed to keep straight, white men supporting the state of Israel. Progressives in power. want to promote the voices of racial It’s a complicated knot. So how can it be minorities—as long as those voices aren’t untangled? You start by picking a string. Fiscal expressing conservative opinions. sanity can help fix the culture, and fixing the With progressives in power, you can never culture can make it easier to find fiscal sanity. be sure that you won’t be the next egg broken The best case for cutting spending is grounded for an omelet. Conservatives don’t have need of in an understanding of the legitimate purposes doctrines to resolve the tensions between theory of government. And convincing people that and practice—such as intersectionality—because government has grown beyond those purposes freedom really is for everybody. Peter’s liberty is requires talking about things other than math not diminished when Paul’s is protected. In fact, and economics. it’s enhanced. It also helps to know the contrary position. And when government protects your liberty, As the Left sees things, individual rights are it puts your fortunes and your future in your less important than power, disparities in which own hands, not that of a group claiming you as a ALEX ADRIANSON edits The Insider. Have a story idea? are the real cause of suffering in the world. In member. If we can’t win with that message, then Want to connect with him? Email [email protected] this view, the redistribution of power from the we are doing something wrong. 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ROUND UP Tax Rates in the ’50s, Homeschoolers Shine, Late-Term Abortions, CBO Mis-Estimates, Admissions Scandal How the 9 Diversity Agenda TOOLKIT Corrupts Higher Effective Facebook Education 26 Marketing in the Age of AN INTERVIEW WITH Class Warfare Algorithm Anxiety 16 HEATHER MAC DONALD Taxes 14 CALENDAR 40 35 32 PICTURING POLICY The Enemies Economic Freedom Is Good for the of Free Speech Environment Are Targeting Who Taught Citizens to Think 43 the Internet of Themselves as Victims? © 2019 The Heritage Foundation | 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, DC 20002 | (202) 544-4400 Alex Adrianson, Editor | Kay Coles James, President | Robert Bluey, Vice President of Communications | Jim Weidman, Editorial Director | Melissa Bluey, Designer Founded in 1978 by The Heritage Foundation, The Insider is a quarterly journal of conservative ideas for promoting liberty in public policy. Contact the editor: [email protected] Nothing in these pages is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of The Heritage Foundation or as an attempt to aid or hinder KEITHBISHOP/GETTY IMAGES; ARTISTEER/GETTY IMAGES; JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES SULLIVAN/GETTY JUSTIN IMAGES; ARTISTEER/GETTY IMAGES; KEITHBISHOP/GETTY CLOCKWISE: DAVID MUIR/GETTY IMAGES; ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES; IMAGES; MILLER/GETTY ETHAN IMAGES; MUIR/GETTY DAVID CLOCKWISE: the passage of any bill before Congress. THE INSIDER SPRING 2019 3 A WALL MARKS THE U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER at Tijuana and Baja, March 13. What One Change Would Improve the U.S. Immigration System? DAVID INSERRA enough time talking about the fact that once an illegal immigrant enters the country and is Right now we are seeing a spike in illegal apprehended, the immigration system generally immigration at our southern border. Three just releases them into the United States. things distinguish these immigrants from Two loopholes plus our weak asylum system those who arrived previously. They are mostly: have created this catch-and-release system. The unaccompanied children or “family units” first is the well-intentioned Trafficking Victims (i.e., adults with children); from Guatemala, Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. The Honduras, or El Salvador, rather than Mexico; second is the ruling of the Court of Appeals for and increasingly claiming, though not the Ninth Circuit in Flores v. Lynch (2016), which necessarily being granted, asylum. reinterpreted a 1997 settlement known as Flores. Even though we are catching most of these Because of these two loopholes if you show up at aliens, we cannot remove them from the United the border as an unaccompanied child or as an States because of loopholes in our laws. We adult with a child, the United States is required spend a lot of time talking about border barriers by law to release the child and the family into the and other tools to secure the border, which do United States. slow down border crossings and increase the In 2018, the Trump administration began a chances of apprehension. But we don’t spend policy of zero tolerance of illegal immigration, IMAGES VIA GETTY IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET JELINGER/SOPA MEGAN 4 SPRING 2019 THE INSIDER which resulted in detaining parents JESSICA VAUGHAN Tweaks using so their cases could be adjudicated, executive authority leading to, in most cases, deportation In fiscal year will help, but the most of the families. This policy became 2017, foreign visitors The effective way to deter known as family separation. In overstayed their legal proceedings overstays is to reduce the response to intense political entries about 700,000 incentives and increase furor over family separation, the times, with more than for the average the risk of consequences. administration reversed the policy 400,000 of them failing overstayer likely If overstayers cannot after only a couple months. So right to depart or acquire will take over easily get a job, a driver’s now, family units showing up at our a legal status within eight years. license, and other southern border are caught and then eight months after the benefits, there is little released. Many will fail to show up for end of the fiscal year. One option point to remaining their immigration court hearing, yet Not only does this is to require illegally. Implementing keeping the family together in custody rampant disregard for certain mandatory use is simply not allowed by law. our laws undermine of E-Verify and Our asylum system contributes to the integrity of our categories discouraging sanctuary this mess by ensuring that very weak immigration system, it is of visa policies will help. claims of “credible fear” are used to also a national security holders to For those who will delay the adjudication of these cases, and public safety not be deterred, we guaranteeing that the claimants will vulnerability, since we waive their need more effective be released into the United States. can’t know the motives of rights to enforcement. Unlike The result is the surge we are those who overstay. a court illegal border now seeing at our borders with Congress has been hearing as crossers, who often children used as pawns to game the pressing for action for can be processed system. And because of the special 25 years, but successive a condition administratively by attention and legal processes we administrations have of admission.