Bureaucrats: civil servants or civil masters?
Installment Five: The New Bossism of the American Left
Author’s note: Sometime in late March—I will be releasing in serial form for premium subscribers my new book, tentatively entitled Liberty in the Age of Bureaucracy, which builds upon my previous book, The New Bossism of the American Left. That latter book was written in 2012-2015, well before the arrival of Donald Trump on the national political stage. I would certainly write some of it differently today—but not much—and I still think it lays out the foundation of the bureaucratic collectivist state that I feel provides important context to the new work. In short, the bureaucratic collectivist state is more dangerous and pervasive than I thought then, its threat to liberty far more existential and imminent. So, without further ado, here’s installment 5 of The New Bossism of the American Left.