When the first Civil Service Reform Act passed in 1883, “good government” reformers envisioned nonpartisan civil servants fairly administering the federal bureaucracy.The executive branch increasingly treats agencies like the IRS and the DOJ not as impartial regulators, but as partisan weapons for intimidating political opponents. Co-hosted with the Federalist Society.
Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson joins the Ill Literacy Podcast 7.30.20
Dr. Bradley C.S. Watson joins the Heartland Institute’s Tim Benson to discuss his book, 'Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea.'
Bradley C. S. Watson is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor of politics and the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought at Saint Vincent College, where he is also codirector of the Center for Political and Economic Thought.
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