Even in Liberal Philadelphia, Decent People Don’t Want the Junkies Next Door!

On September 14th, the Philadelphia City Council passed an ordinance to prohibit supervised drug consumption sites across most of the city. Outgoing Mayor Jim Kenney is appalled! Mayor Jim Kenney is vetoing a bill that prohibits supervised injection sites in most of the city Kenney’s move sends the bill back to City Council, which is …

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Standards, Cultural Relativism, and Broken Windows

Standards, Cultural Relativism, and Broken Windows This blog builds on the prior blogs Virtue: religion and philosophy, what does the founders’ vision embrace? and Virtue and Pandora’s Box: Effective Policy. Pandora’s Box discussed the damage some Victorian virtue policies wrought, but said the social justice movement’s “cure” may be worse than the disease it sought …

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