Pro Moses and anti Jacobs? Not entirely, but there’s a familiar trajectory to this lapsed neocon's thinking. "The tension between a government promoting public purposes and the forces of the market has been present from the beginning of the American Republic. This is nowhere more evident than in the story of its capital, Washington, DC. That city was designed by a French engineer, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, who is the subject of a series of new books that give us the opportunity to revisit the perennial question of where we ought to draw the boundary between state and market, planning and spontaneity." The American Interest
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