Administrative state rule is fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-constitutional. Its animating “expert consensus” derives from and carries the authority of science. In practice, this amounts to elevating the research universities into the highest sources of political, moral, and spiritual authority (with a supporting role played by think tanks, NGOs, and small circulation intellectual journals, all of which take their cues from the universities). Their holy writ is the peer-reviewed journal article.
Administrative State
