Amid Trumpian chaos, the best-selling author and other top writers are heralding stories of bureaucrat heroes and a public sector we desperately need.
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A President at War With His Own Government
Will the government or Trump himself suffer the greatest damage in the long run?
Posted inBooks, Featured
The Pitfalls of Privatization
For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have pushed for government privatization. But, a business-like government is directly hostile to our constitutional order.
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Government Can Work
I had my job interview at The Washington Monthly in February 1976. Everything went extremely well. In those days most of the life of the magazine took place in three locations, none of which exists anymore: the La Salle Building, a combination cheap residential hotel and office building, where the actual office was; the old Sholl’s Colonial Cafeteria, […]
Posted inMarch 1989
I’ve Tilted at Windmills, and the Windmills Won
Six years ago, I was offered an unusual job at Newsweek that was at least partly the result of the efforts of the editor of this magazine. While I’m grateful to Charlie Peters for assisting my career advancement, the job he helped arrange also points up some practical failures associated with his view of how […]
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The View From A Small Town
Early on in the new Washington novel by Ben Wattenberg, who became famous as a man attuned to the hearts and minds of average Mid-western Americans, a White House speechwriter has lunch at Sans Souci with a savvy New York Times reporter, the kind of character who’s obviously there to say what’s on the author’s mind. The […]
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Success In America
We’re a nation obsessed with success and how it is achieved—with good reason, because the possibility of success is what fuels so many of us. So central is the notion of success to the way we operate and think of ourselves that it explains a lot about our society. The path to the top is a reflection of the nature of America, and in turn helps shape […]
