Can’t Stigmas Be Useful?

Liberal approaches to social life have really hit the jackpot: reduced morals, betrayed children, disease, and poverty.

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National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr.

National Review

Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s column reflects, with 20 years of data, on the manifold failings, both moral and financial, of the social welfare programs popularized in the 1960s.

The permissiveness of which modern liberals are so proud turns out, in situation after situation, to usher in circumstances liberals — and others — deplore; and so it is time now to check on our hierarchies and integrate our thinking.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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