if we declared war against herbert crowely in 1995 he won at least that round. how will things be different this time? well, if the professional service state was becoming too expensive in the mid 90s, it most certainly is too expensive in 2010, and cutbacks that were unimaginable then are going to be unavoidable today. if schools and charters seem unresponsive to the education bureaucracy in the 90s, consider how far we've come since then. waiting for superman promote charters and blame teachers for the problems of public education. the new promise was one of the first conservative projects to suggest that herbert crowely's ewe toppian intellectual vision might be more a source of our problems than fdr's more practical new deal for instance. since then, i think it's become clearer to us how much of our politics, how much of our daily politics spins out of the tension between progressive nationalist's vision of a rain of experts, and the democratic decentrallist vision of the framework of the american constitution. such arguments were once of interest only to a