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February 15, 2025
Deep state, shmeep state: a spirited rebuttal to the canard that federal civil servants are nest-featherers up to no good. "The fact is that federal employees go to work every day with the explicit job description of making the lives of everyday Americans better." So writes W. Kamau Bell, one of the writers drawn into thisWashington Post project to explore the federal workforce and the things its members do in their daily labors. As volume editor Lewis notes, thePost series, although about eight times larger than the usual feature, saw a fourfold increase in readership--perhaps not so surprising, given that D.C. is a company town, but noteworthy in that the series painstakingly showed readers the myriad ways in which government is not the demonized bugaboo of Reagan and Trump supporters. What do the people of the Department of Agriculture do? Lewis asks and answers: "They preserve rural America from extinction, among other things." Lewis, best known for his 2003 bookMoneyball, profiles a mine inspector at the Department of Labor who, committed to making mining safer, developed protocols and technologies such as the "stability factor" to do just that, even though "industry executives...made it clear...that they viewed safety as a subject for wimps and losers." The National Cemetery Administration, writes Casey Cep, may be unknown, but its 2,300-odd employees "bury more than 140,000 veterans and their family members each year" while tending the graves of more than 4 million veterans. Dave Eggers visits the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is quietly asking questions about life in the universe, sending out spacecraft and monitoring the heavens while employing some of the best minds in the world--about a third of them women. All the contributions similarly press the point that the government's work is useful--and no one else but government workers are likely to do it. Compelling arguments against ideologues bent on dismantling the government.
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