Obama’s regulatory czar, law professor Cass Sunstein, is just full of big ideas. Unfortunately, they all revolve around increasing government control over people. Read Ed Cline’s excellent essay on Sunstein here.

Sunstein, long at the University of Chicago, is now on Harvard’s faculty. Reading about his many theories for making life better reminds one of William F. Buckley’s quip that he’d rather be governed by the first thousand names in the Boston phone book than by Harvard’s faculty.