How is it possible? After 160 years of public education, fifty years of social service agencies, a vast infrastructure of government programs and interventions, how is it possible for a great American city to descend into lawlessness in a couple of days?
The answer is developed by Nicole Gelinas in City Journal. New Orleans really doesn’t have a government worthy of the name.
New Orleans has no real competent government or civil infrastructure — and no aggressive media or organized citizens’ groups to prod public officials in the right direction during what will be, in the best-case scenario, a painstaking path to normalcy.
Its crime rate is ten times the national average. People with skills and drive have been leaving in droves over the last generation. It is full, as the American philosopher Lee Harris puts it, of “children of nature.”
How could there be so many children of nature in the United States of America in the year 2005? How could that happen? Whose fault is it? That is something to think about.
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