Diversity Agenda Vs. Learning Class Warfare Taxes Threats to Free Speech Online What Will It Take to Control Spending? SPRING 2019 CONSERVATIVE IDEAS FOR ADVANCING LIBERTY Freedom Is for Everyone CONTENTS | SPRING 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE N THIS ISSUE, YOU WILL FIND oppressors to the oppressed (primarily racial 2 Heather Mac Donald (p. 16) discussing “the and sexual minorities) is the only just purpose What Will trashing of Western civilization” on college of politics, and if individual rights get in the I ONE QUESTION 21 campuses. Picking up that theme, Mike Gon- way of that project, then they must be shoved What One Change It Take to zalez (p. 32) identifies the entitlement state aside. Likewise, GDP growth, debt, deficits, and Would Improve the as a major motivator of those same corrupt- other traditional metrics of good policy matter U.S. Immigration Control ing agendas. not when weighed against the imperatives of System? 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 4 Spending? 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 ROUND UP budget process reforms. balances and rights is the means by which liberty Tax Rates in the ’50s, Something for everybody—or at least is preserved. Homeschoolers everybody who likes bad news. Read in While the conservative concern for Shine, Late-Term conjunction, these articles lead to a dire constitutional rigor may seem distant from Abortions, CBO summation of our current situation: the everyday struggles of people, it at least has Mis-Estimates, Raising taxes will harm the economy and lead this advantage over the progressive mania for Admissions Scandal How the to even more government spending (and deficits equality: It does not create insoluble conflicts Diversity and debt); but government spending is already over who is more oppressed than whom. 9 rising because organized interest groups value Progressives want more minorities admitted Agenda 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. TOOLKIT Corrupts Higher very existence of the entitlement state induces Progressives want economic justice—but Effective Facebook Education 26 citizens to see their interests in terms of what primarily justice for the inner cities, not Marketing government gives them; that, in turn, encourages so much for the hayseeds up in the holler. in the Age of AN INTERVIEW WITH Class Warfare HEATHER MAC DONALD citizens to identify as members of interest Progressives oppose bigotry—unless it’s bigotry Algorithm Anxiety 16 Taxes 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 14 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 CALENDAR a con designed to keep straight, white men supporting the state of Israel. Progressives 40 35 32 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. PICTURING POLICY The Enemies sanity can help fix the culture, and fixing the With progressives in power, you can never Economic Freedom of Free Speech culture can make it easier to find fiscal sanity. be sure that you won’t be the next egg broken Is Good for the Who Taught Citizens to Think The best case for cutting spending is grounded for an omelet. Conservatives don’t have need of Environment Are Targeting in an understanding of the legitimate purposes doctrines to resolve the tensions between theory of Themselves as Victims? of government. And convincing people that and practice—such as intersectionality—because 43 the Internet 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, © 2019 The Heritage Foundation | 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, DC 20002 | (202) 544-4400 and economics. it’s enhanced. Alex Adrianson, Editor | Kay Coles James, President | Robert Bluey, Vice President of Communications | Jim Weidman, Editorial Director | It also helps to know the contrary position. And when government protects your liberty, Melissa Bluey, Designer As the Left sees things, individual rights are it puts your fortunes and your future in your Founded in 1978 by The Heritage Foundation, The Insider is a quarterly journal of conservative ideas for promoting liberty in public policy. less important than power, disparities in which own hands, not that of a group claiming you as a Contact the editor: [email protected] ALEX ADRIANSON edits The Insider. Have a story idea? are the real cause of suffering in the world. In member. 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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 A WALL MARKS THE U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER at Tijuana and Baja, March 13. system. And because of the special 25 years, but successive a condition administratively by attention and legal processes we administrations have of admission. immigration officers give to children and asylum seekers, failed to address the upon arrest, visa our immigration officials and court problem. The first step overstayers are system are underwater, with no hope was to implement an entry-exit entitled to more generous forms What One Change Would Improve of ever digging out. Without changes, system, and one important benefit is of due process, including a hearing most of these illegal immigrants will that we now have a better idea of who in immigration court and the the U.S. Immigration System? remain in the United States even is overstaying and in what categories opportunity for protracted appeals. though only about 10 percent of of entry. Our immigration courts are now so Central Americans will actual end up Now the State Department must dysfunctional that the proceedings DAVID INSERRA enough time talking about the fact that once being given asylum. adjust and issue fewer visas to for the average overstayer arrested an illegal immigrant enters the country and is These loopholes should be changed applicants in categories with poor today likely will take over eight Right now we are seeing a spike in illegal apprehended, the immigration system generally to allow us to keep families together, compliance. Dozens of countries have years. Congress should address the immigration at our southern border. Three just releases them into the United States. but quickly return them to their overstay rates of more than 30 percent backlog; one option is to require things distinguish these immigrants from Two loopholes plus our weak asylum system home countries.