The Review

Vol. 39, No. 14

07/31/2023

The Review

William P. Hoar

Who’s in Charge Here?

You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State, by David Bernhardt, New York: Encounter Books, 2023, 272 pages, hardcover.

You shouldn’t blame the mess in Washington on one person: It takes real teamwork. Unfortunately, the denizens of the federal swamp play by their own rules and for their own team — regardless of whomever is elected. 

What do they do? Pretty much what they want. Their numbers grow, they boast of their untouchability, and they are aided by many in the capital unable or unwilling to execute their constitutional duties to rein in the “civil servants” of the federal bureaucracy. 

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