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Taming Big Tech

Remember the “techlash”?

Jan 29 • David Dagan

The need for a media temperance movement

Americans used to drink like fish.

Jan 29 • Brink Lindsey

Blinded by the glare

We cannot take on Big Tech because we cannot even see the problem.

Jan 29 • Adam Garfinkle

The fragmentation flywheel

Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution resists political response

Jan 29 • Christopher Allbritton

The missing politics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Call it the information age, the fourth industrial revolution, the cognitive era.

Jan 29 • Jennifer Burns

Abundance of what? Abundance for what?

This essay builds on themes from Brink Lindsey’s new book, “The Permanent Problem.” In D.C.?

Jan 15 • Brink Lindsey

December 2025

Let’s bake the liberal sourdough

Yes, Jonathan V. Last, liberalism needs to revisit its recipe. No, Ross Douthat, we should not give up on the starter.

Dec 17, 2025 • David Dagan

November 2025

The ghosts of government reform

The Clinton administration spent 8 years "Reinventing Government," but we still have the same problems. Can we learn how to solve them for good?

Nov 19, 2025 • David Dagan

Reform won’t stick without real goals

The mirror image of the "procedure fetish" is reform with no substantive end.

Nov 19, 2025 • Henry M. J. Tonks

To defeat the bureaucracy, embrace bureaucracy

Reinventing Government succeeded where it forced a change in practice; neither inspiration nor job cuts proved transformational.

Nov 19, 2025 • Kevin Hawickhorst

Democrats’ Wile E. Coyote Problem

For two decades, Democrats thought they could outrun the broken operating systems of government through managerial excellence. It didn’t work before…

Nov 19, 2025 • Gabe Menchaca

Recombining government: These are the questions bureaucratic reformers can't avoid

Every generation since Wilson has debated how bureaucracy can be effective and accountable. Neither DOGE nor Abundance have settled those questions.

Nov 19, 2025 • Casey Eilbert

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