Flyover Takes
BenHeartland dispatches from a recovering coastal elite. Mostly book reviews covering history, music, movies, and occasionally politics.
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Reform Needs Business
As readers of this blog will know, I’ve become obsessed with state capacity, the government’s ability to execute on its goals. As demonstrated by recent books like Abundance (my review here) and Why Nothing Works (two posts here and here),...
Nobody Was Satisfied. Everything Got Built.
American local government around 1900 has a bad reputation. It’s known as an era of “Machine Politics” and “Boss Rule.” Corrupt political parties divvied up public contracts and practiced open bribery. The backlash to this era is part of wh...
Who are America’s real peers?
I come from a long line of patriotic Virginians, who will not let you forget how many of the Founding Fathers hailed from their state. My mom’s side has a tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July.
I host an a...
Does Anyone Have a Stake in the Constitution?
Regular readers know that I’ve been grappling a lot with current efforts to reform America’s political institutions. To borrow a framing from Francis Fukuyama, we spend too much time debating the size and quantity of government, not enough...
10 of my favorite ideas from 2026 (so far)
I wanted to share 10 of my favorite pieces of writing that I’ve read in the first half of this year. Each of them contains some piece of wisdom that is still kicking around my head, or that I find myself bringing up regularly in conversatio...
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