The War Against Managerial Rule

The War Against Managerial Rule

Progressive thinkers and politicians now routinely warn us of threats to “our democracy” purportedly emanating from the populist Right. But they protest too much. It is the progressives themselves who swell the ranks of the managerial elite that governs us. And as N.S. Lyons writes, “the authorities that run our societies seem to find the practice, values, and very spirit of democracy to be increasingly intolerable.”  For many decades, we’ve bee…