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When Truth Is Lost in Translation January 12, 2024
The following is a condensed version of "When Truth Is Lost in Translation" by Roy Mathews, published at Law & Liberty.Narratives concerning the marginalized have come to dominate American institutions and popular culture. The plight of a plethora of...
On the Glorification of Bureaucrats June 10, 2019
Politics without romance” is how the late Nobel prize-winning economist James Buchanan described the “public choice” theory he expounded in the early 1960s and helped disseminate far and wide over the next five decades. According to Buchanan's model,...
Wading Through the Administrative Sludge March 29, 2019
The Office of Management and Budget is required by law to produce a widely neglected annual report, the Information Collection Budget of the United States Government (ICB), which quantifies the annual paperwork burden that the government imposes on i...
Unmasking the Administrative State February 15, 2019
John J. Miller is joined by John Marini to discuss his book, Unmasking the Administrative State....
'Try Common Sense' by Philip K. Howard February 01, 2019
In this compact book, Philip K. Howard picks up where he left off with 'The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America', tapping into bipartisan unrest and prescribing three basic reforms - deregulation, accountability, and a bureaucratic ...
'The Fifth Risk' by Michael Lewis November 09, 2018
Michael Lewis has earned a reputation for turning what might be dry, boring material in another author’s hands into gripping narrative. In “Moneyball,” the use of advanced statistics to evaluate Major League Baseball players became a underdog story a...
Michael Lewis's New Book Is Love Letter to Federal Workers October 05, 2018
Michael Lewis's “The Fifth Risk” looks like a book — it has hard covers, chapters, acknowledgments and the rest — but it reads like a love letter. It is a love letter to underappreciated people and old-fashioned notions, and to underappreciated peopl...
Dismantling the Administrative State September 14, 2018
A remarkable movement is underway in the legal world, unlike any other during my lifetime. Growing skepticism regarding the conceptual underpinnings of the “administrative state”—the alphabet soup of powerful administrative agencies that dominate Bel...
Bullshit Jobs and the Yoke of Managerial Feudalism July 06, 2018
Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character's successor may be David Graeber. In 2013 he achieved viral fame with cubicle zombies everywhere after he published a short essay on the prevalence ...
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber June 01, 2018
I had a bullshit job once. It involved answering the phone for an important man, except the phone didn't ring for hours on end, so I spent the time guiltily converting my PhD into a book. I've also had several jobs that were not bullshit but were ste...
