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Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal. Today in Pirate Wires, he examines the causes of American disorder — retail theft, unsheltered homelessness, and visible disarray across U.S. cities. Disorder is more insidious than violent crime, harder to track, and possibly more taboo to discuss. Solutions exist. We just need to implement them.
This piece was originally published in Charles' Substack, The Causal Fallacy.