Chicago is once again in the headlines. Trump has threatened to send in the National Guard, and the usual chorus of bureaucrats, academics, and blue-check pundits are shrieking about “authoritarianism.”
But let’s be honest: Chicago is the poster child of Leviathan’s failure—and it’s by design.
For decades, the ruling class has run that city into the groun…
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