Back when they had more ideas than subservience, those who call themselves “conservatives” liked to invoke “Chesterton’s Fence,” a parable by the English philosopher G.K. Chesterton. His allegory, ...

A: I live within the city limit. My neighbor built a privacy fence on his property about two feet from our property line. I have no fences. When I cut my grass, I cut all the way up to his fence ...