If you want to ruin the power of businesses to innovate and succeed, just insulate them from competition and protect them from failure. Likewise, if you want to see public institutions adapt some of the habits and characteristics of the best private entities, expose them to forces that weed out poor performance and open up massive new channels for decision-making and experimentation.
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Disruption threatened by the electoral success of a slate of new left politicians is our only remaining shot at restoring small-d democratic accountability through peaceful means.
Whatever succeeds, history tells us it will not be merely a continuation of what came before.
Maybe this is good. Maybe it’s bad. But “looking up to the Tower” is definitely not how people solve public policy problems in a healthy democracy.
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Government was forged in war, and war remains its most irreplaceable function.
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
With government under pressure from Idiocrats and straining against its own inherent limitations, private companies are taking on more and more of the functions we once thought belonged entirely in the public realm.
The biggest threat to the integrity of our elections isn’t the machines, but the users.
