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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Bureaucrats’ Academy on Drawing Board


“There is West Point for soldiers, and Annapolis for sailors, but no parallel place of grit and glory for that maligned tribe of government workers known as bureaucrats. Chris Myers Asch is trying to change that. With no money, contacts or obvious qualifications, Mr. Asch quit his job three years ago at a Mississippi after-school program and started a campaign to create a civilian service academy — a West Point for bureaucrats.” (New York Times, Wednesday)

Would the academy change the inherent nature of bureaucracy?

FEE Timely Classic
“The Bureaucracy Problem” by David Osterfeld


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.