Failing Better

From National Review Kevin Williamson writes McHealthcare Deluxe- The Affordable Care Act is a failed political product. What’s too often lost in the Sturm und Drang of recent Republican efforts to reform the insurance reforms enacted by Democrats in 2009 is this: The...

A Radicalized Bureaucracy

from The National Review, Matthew Continetti writes Who Rules The United States: The last few weeks have confirmed that there are two systems of government in the United States. The first is the system of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution — its checks, its...

Overreach of Bureaucratic Power

from The National Review, Matthew Continetti writes Who Rules The United States: Here was a case of current and former national security officials using their position, their sources, and their methods to crush a political enemy. And no one but supporters of the...

Bureaucratic Behaviour

from newly discovered blog Isegoria, Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics Francis W. Porretto notes that Cyril Northcote Parkinson studied the same phenomenon of bureaucratic behavior: Parkinson promulgated a number of laws of bureaucracy that serve to explain a...

Three Laws of Politics

from newly discovered blog Isegoria, Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to...