SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Members of both parties agree that assuring high-speed internet access by expanding broadband networks in “underserved” communities is a laudable goal that will bridge the digital divide. Internet access has become a requisite for participating in the…
The Donald Trump administration’s Schedule F proposal to make it possible to discipline and fire “tens of thousands of federal employees” — and the former president’s recent threat to reestablish it if reelected — shocked political Washington. But the pro-bureaucracy…
The Supreme Court has certainly been on a roll as it has released the decisions from the now-ended current term. There was the paring back of restrictions against government dollars to flow to religious organizations in the event parents would…
Ludwig von Mises’ Yale University Press classic Bureaucracy explains in a relatively few pages the difference between public and private-sector bureaucratic management. The private sector can measure what is going on in large hierarchies of bureaucracy below its CEO simply…
In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas of failure that historians and FDR partisans ignore, downplay, or explain away in their infatuation with the nation’s 32nd president….
Many new books are appearing drawing various lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Conspicuously absent, however, is any analysis of how weaknesses in U.S. law allowed COVID-19 to become the dominant issue in the 2020 presidential election. Whether or not one believes…
America is the greatest country in the history of the world based on God-given freedom. Our freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are now being assaulted on every front by mobs, high-tech censors, perpetuators of the cancel…
“Bureaucracy Expanding Beyond the Beltway,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, June 23, 2021.
The majority of Americans believe that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decisions in handling the COVID-19 pandemic have been influenced by politics. On Monday, thousands of emails from Fauci surfaced, revealing how he…