Progressivism and the Managerial State

"[P]rogressives prefer government by apolitical, ostensibly objective experts, who would be well-positioned to regulate and oversee the public interest. Leonard correctly notes that disinterested experts are impossible: no human actor is disinterested. The Madisonian Constitution’s aim was to balance those interests through political deliberation. The progressives, by contrast, have sought to surmount, overrule, and otherwise evade them."