The Lesson of COVID-19: Don’t Give Government More Power

The great conservative thinker William F. Buckley in 1963 wrote that he would rather “live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” Buckley recognized the great “brainpower” among the university’s faculty, but feared the “intellectual arrogance […]