America Bows To Technocratic Despots

The expert class, tired of facing resistance, makes obedience mandatory.

Jacob Howland. “[T]he logic of 21st-century technocratic despotism was spelled out long ago in Plato’s Republic. In that dialogue, a class of self-styled experts — the philosopher-kings and their academically-trained ministers — considers its exclusive claim to a science of politics as a title to rule. Contemptuous of what they regard as the ignorant ma…