HeyJaredRearview Mirror
Charles Maier's occasional reflections on public affairs illuminated, hopefully, by history.
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America’s Fevered Dreams: The “Deep State” in PerspectiveAmericans have had a long-term problem when they talk about the state. At times they have denied having a real state at all in the European sense; at other moments they have believed in a conspiratorial bureaucratic apparatus that controls the machinery of government. This is what Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former adviser, has called “the deep state,” a supposed cabal of long-term bureaucrats who worked from within to frustrate the ne
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Fauci, Oppenheimer,...Socrates Dr. Fauci’s ritual shaming and the vote by Rand Paul’s Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs vote to recommend that he be held in contempt of Congress should not surprise. It is the latest example of the would-be champions of vox populi humiliating and punishing those who seem to represent superior knowledge or wisdom. What makes the public ceremony possible, sadly, is that the scapegoats are revealed to indulge in a certain vanity; they ha
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Monopolies and other ShibbolethsI. Do you remember your elementary economics class where it was explained that there was a parallel between dollars and votes, and we all got to spend our dollars the way we all got to vote and by aggregating the dollars spent on a market basket of goods, we could establish a demand curve? James Buchanan, the public-choice economist, set out the argument formally in 1954 --in his article, “Individual Choice in Voting and the Market,” Journal of Political Economy,
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