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CATEGORY: WORLD(11 min)
A forum of futility
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Since the end of World War II, many world leaders have strived to create some sort of international agenda that could save the planet from all possible crises. These efforts, with few exceptions, have ended in the destruction of liberty, the creation of more disasters, or simply nothing at all. But globalists are nothing if not persistent.
In National Review, Jim Geraghty takes aim at the World Economic Forum, which is currently meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He highlights the absurdity of the WEF’s focus on trying to change the lifestyle of every individual on earth—while ignoring the actual problems that challenge us today.
Geraghty recalls the publishing of a 2016 article on the WEF’s website by a Danish parliament member who extolled the virtues of destroying private property and privacy. Geraghty writes that although the WEF never explicitly endorsed the article, their repeated emphasis on making everyone around the world live the same way indicates their implicit support.
And, as Geraghty reminds us, the WEF keeps bemoaning climate change while flying to Davos in private jets.
Discover what Geraghty says the WEF ought to be working on instead right here
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CATEGORY: IMMIGRATION (4 min)
The border and the Big Apple
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New York City has taken a sharp nosedive in safety and cleanliness over the past few years. The crime wave led the city to elect Mayor Eric Adams, who has not found significant success in combatting the crisis yet. But in the midst of this existing problem, NYC now faces an influx of migrants from the southern border, and this time, Adams appears to be taking a stand.
Sohrab Ahmari, in The American Conservative, praises Adams for traveling to El Paso, Texas, and urging the Biden administration to help solve the border crisis. Adams predicted that his city might have to spend nearly $2 billion this summer on handling these asylum seekers, individuals that have been let into the country through Biden’s policies.
Far apart from creating safety issues and employment concerns, Ahmari says, the migrants themselves are in great danger. In New York, they usually will end up homeless or exploited, outcomes which all levels of government should want to prevent. Thus, Ahmari urges Biden to listen to Adams and stem the flow of asylum seekers.
Read more of Ahmari’s argument right here.
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CATEGORY: IMMIGRATION(24 MIN)
Construction over destruction
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Despite such disasters in immigration policy as New York’s current crisis, there are still many who would argue against any major restrictions on immigration. In our Intercollegiate Review archive, Chilton Williamson digs into why so many people have become convinced that restrictions on immigration are bad for America and why their belief is so strange given our nation’s history.
Williams goes through our country’s past to show that our Founders, the majority of past Americans, and the positions of past political parties all usually aligned against encouraging immigration. He calls the recent development of pro-immigration fervor “immigrationism,” and he says it is a result of the combination of ideologies like globalism and excessive nationalism.
“I agree with the founding generation that ‘there is no need of encouragement’ with respect to immigration, and conclude that it should therefore be shut off entirely,” Williamson writes.
Analyze the rest of Williamson’s bold argument right here.
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