
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior…
In certain circles, especially among ‘postliberal’ thinkers on the right, it’s now fashionable to claim that the Constitution has failed.

Both liberals and conservatives harbor the conceit that their own intentions can finally succeed where decades of intervention have failed.

If both parties keep treating economics as a branch of campaign strategy, Americans will keep paying more for less in checkout lines — and punish them at the ballot box.

What was once meant to be a narrow exception for genuine crises becomes a routine pretext for government overreach.

It’s the direct result of reckless promises to retirees, the cost of health care and an unwillingness to pay the bills honestly.

What began as a populist revolt against so-called elites has become a program of state ownership, price fixing and top-down industrial control.


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