I recently finished reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The book explains the various missteps taken by the U.S. government that led us to where we are today: a bureaucratic sludge of policies and regulations that’s caused ambitious projects to go over budget (e.g., Healthcare.gov) or remain unfinished (e.g., California High-Speed Rail). Klein and Thompson propose a renaissance of our public institutions- an invigorated era where government “gets out of the way” of itsel...
