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Abolish Grad School March 10, 2025
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I think some of the Trump/Musk hatchet blows to government spending seem bad. Take the slashing of the IRS workforce. In a sane country, “fiscal conservatives” would want to maximize tax compliance. But in t...
DOGE Gets Serious March 05, 2025
I have argued for over a decade that America has a fourth, largely unaccountable branch of government in the administrative state. My 2012 book, Stealing You Blind, describes how federal bureaucrats were making bank while ruining people’s lives and c...
On Mending Over Ending March 03, 2025
As someone deeply concerned about institutional corruption, much has been refreshing about Elon Musk’s merry band of DOGE barbarians laying waste to dubious federal programs and expenditures. Sure, the cuts are mainly symbolic window dressing that do...
DOGE as Class War February 17, 2025
t might strike some as odd: The new president of the United States won the election by rallying the working class against the establishment swamp, yet he has placed at the helm of his assault on the elite-controlled Deep State none other than the ric...
Has Cancel Culture Been Canceled? February 14, 2025
Marko Elez, a software engineer working in Elon Musk’s DOGE, was recently “canceled” due to some offensive remarks . . . and then uncanceled the next day. Elez had posted some very obnoxious things, such as “Normalize Indian hate,” and “Just for the ...
DOGE and the Backlash to the Backlash February 12, 2025
Late last week, Elon Musk announced that the initiative he’s heading up, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, would rehire Marko Elez, the 25-year-old staffer who was fired after a Wall Street Journal story unearthed several offensive X ...
It Can’t Just Be DOGE January 10, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump’s return to Washington will surely bring with it a renewed focus on the administrative state and its excesses. Exemplifying that effort is the much–media–maligned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, headed by El...
America Should Not Become a Nation of Tiger Moms January 01, 2025
A rift in the MAGA coalition emerged last week as Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk—co-chairs of DOGE, a Trump advisory committee—advocated for more H-1B visas, angering immigration hard-liners in the GOP base. Generally, the debate over H-1B is an econo...
