Fentanyl is poisoning babies, teenagers, and adults. Those in government in Washington, D.C., who were elected to protect us have done the opposite.

Our fentanyl pandemic is a crisis of our own making.

Enabling the disease of addiction is a killer.

Figures on both the Left and the Right have engaged in moral retreat, forgetting the moral dimensions to drug abuse. This retreat is just part of their broader abandonment of the rich western tradition of ordered liberty and its replacement with absolutist libertarianism.

Why do politicians and public health officials behave so badly? They want to show that they’re “doing something,” even if it’s the wrong thing.