The Post-Partisan Emporium

  THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTROL The Insanity of Cities: How Urban Life Breeds the Progressive Mind-Virus "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one." - Charles MacKay, Scottish author and poet (1814-1889) Carson J. McAuley To take a stroll through downtown L.A., Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, or perhaps more daring still, to venture into the dark heart of the NYC subway system, is to be intimately acquainted with both the heartbreaking sights and stomach-clenching stenches which characterize the modern American metropolis. From the multi-mile-long  homeless encampments dimpling Portland  to the  feces-strewn streets of San Francisco  – from  Seattle’s shrieking secessionists  to the  fentanyl epidemic ravaging St. Louis  – there are now sizeable segments of once-great US cities that are all but indistinguishable from a third-world hellscape, and yet no matter how obvious these un