FRANK FUKUYAMA: WHY WE NEED A NEW PENDLETON ACT.

Well, we need to address the fact that the civil service has been colonized by a single political party, and that career officials who are supposed to be nonpartisan have been acting as partisan political operatives, from the IRS Scandal to . . . well, all the other scandals. I don’t think that Fukuyama’s proposed reforms would do anything about this problem. But I have some transformative thoughts.