The July/August issue of Public Administration Review carries my lengthy review of Beth Simone Noveck’s Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings Institution Press, 2009). Noveck is the U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Director—the person heading the Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative. In my review,...
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Speech-less tells an all-too-familiar tale—an idealistic twenty-something comes to DC to work for the government and ends up disillusioned. Matt Latimer grew up in a humble town in Michigan, the son of two committed liberal Democrats. He caught the fever for conservatism, which included a philia for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. A clever chap,...
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A Thoughtful Take on the Travails of Modern Conservatism, by Kevin R. Kosar, October 29, 2009 A cacophony of voices have taken up the topic of “what’s wrong with the right?” Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, has written an engaging book on the subject. Tanenhaus’s stated interest is in...
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Mmmmm, Burgers…., by Kevin R. Kosar, September 7, 2009 I met Andy Smith about a decade ago. At the time, he was working full-time at an educational not-for-profit organization, and cranking out books on food history at the same time. I remember being astonished by his work ethic; he got up every day hideously...
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The Norm or the Exception? by Kevin R. Kosar, September 4, 2009 I blinked and slipped into a slack-jawed, gob-smacked state. We thought the passage was baroque but pretty clear. “I sit here, after long weeks with an inward accumulation of material of which I feel the wealth …. My long dusty adventure...
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