Government bureaus have interests, and these always lay in more power and more money for their budgets. Here’s a case study to illustrate the general principle that the leadership of administrative agencies are best understood as political partisans. Over the last few weeks, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has been advocating for “warnings” on social media to protect children and adolescents from the alleged psychological harm that social media pose to them. This announcement came on the eve of a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri, in which the Court...
Murthy v. Missouri and Our Political Bureaucracy
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