Our Crisis of Institutional Competence

Why things don't work anymore. - Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Almost everywhere you look, we are in a crisis of institutional competence.

• The Secret Service, whose failures in securing Trump's Butler, PA speech are legendary and frankly hard to believe at this point, is one example. (Nor is the Butler event the Secret Service's first embarrassment.)
• The Navy, whose ships keep colliding and catching fire.
• Major software vendor Crowdstrike, whose botched update shut down major computer systems around the world.
• The United States government, which built entire floating harbors to support the D-Day invasion in Europe, but couldn't build a workable floating pier in Gaza.
• And of course, Boeing, whose Starliner spacecraft is stuck, apparently indefinitely, at the International Space Station....