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Conservative gloominess

May 16, 2008 - 9:26 am - by Roger Kimball
Herbert Rubin, M.D.
2008-05-17 09:06:34

I like the point about unintended, unforeseen consequences of reform. Daniel Patric Moynahan had a framed pen from the signing of the bill releasing the mentally ill to the street. Kept it on the wall as an object lesson in progressivism making much worse what it intended to improve.