“You don’t need a doctorate to understand that declaring your city a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants will attract more illegal immigrants,” Noah Rothman writes in the new cover story of National Review magazine.

You need not be Milton Friedman to understand that price controls stand no chance of taming inflation stoked by loose monetary policy and huge amounts of federal fiscal stimulus.

And you need not be a big-city cop to understand the lessons learned in subduing the post-’60s crime wave that only crested with the “broken windows” law-enforcement paradigm.

But, as Noah writes in “The Great Unlearning,” in recent years American society has almost deliberately set out to forget what it has learned. From the international chaos aided and abetted by American weakness........

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