First Causes

It is important to understand why people do, or do not do, what society would have them do. In the last 20 years great things have been accomplished in the large cities of this country. What has happened is a large reduction in both crime and life-long reliance on welfare.

These accomplishments are based on overthrowing liberal notions of what causes these social pathologies and adopting instead conservative notions of causation. An article by Heather MacDonald in City Journal lays all of this out in fine fashion, she calls it "restoring the social contract."