People agree strong government does much good. Nothing new here. But there is a change. Once it seemed that only the sophisticated, the cynical, and economists allied with the University of Chicago understood government’s potentials for mischief. For a generation, the proportion of analysts writing on the pathologies and pitfalls of government power has grown. […]

February 22, 1997 marks the centennial of the creation of the national forest system. We can learn a lot from America’s century-long romance with sylvan socialism. This Progressive Era experiment featured centralized planning by green Platonic despots; it has inspired America’s environmental legislation ever since. The Progressive Era reformers, in contrast to America’s Founding Fathers, […]