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The Radical Incrementalist
Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch on the need for--and impossibility of--reducing the size and scope of government.
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reason: That would thin the herd pretty quickly, wouldn't it?
Rauch: Yeah, it sure would.
reason: That might be the most powerful reform idea that you have.
Rauch: I was going to say you could probably dump the whole rest of the interview and just print that.
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