The president of Hillsdale College, Larry Arnn, critiques in the most recent edition of Imprimis the economic policy proposals flowing out of the White House and Capitol:
The economic policies being proposed these days are very bad. But the principles behind them are worse. They represent a return to the idea that the American Revolution repudiated?the idea that some are equipped by nature or training to manage the lives of others without their consent. ? I take the president at his word when he says that he has no desire to own the automobile companies. Instead, he wants to control them?and the rest of us as well?through a regulatory apparatus overseen by czars and bureaucrats. And again, his intentions are good. What is bad is the view underlying them of what human beings are. Rather than looking on us as equal beings with a set nature?such that none of us should rule another in the way that God rules man or man rules beast?our political leaders today have been taught to see us as material to be shaped and perfected by experts who have the proper technical training.
