Can freedom survive in the era of the administrative state?

By David D'amato

Published October 1, 2017 4:01am ET

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Can freedom survive in the era of the administrative state? — The philosophical assumption at the heart of this system of executive overreach is the idea experts are better equipped to parse the minutiae of specific policy questions and are better educated and trained to recognize the correct course of action. Although innocent enough in theory, this assumption fails to account for certain flaws in the mechanism, for problems surrounding both incentives and information. (Kuzma / iStock) | Kuzma

In The Administrative State, Dwight Waldo’s study of the bureaucratic form, Waldo observes during the Progressive Era, “The traditional separation of powers became the bete noir of American political science,” increasingly set aside in favor of “exaltation of the powers of the executive branch.”

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