GoLocalProv | There Are No Scientific Solutions to Issues that Require Strong Public Leadership—Sasse
Gary Sasse, Hasenfeld Institute The pandemic has focused us on the role experts should play in making public policy. Technical and scientific knowledge is indispensable in informing elected officials. Indeed, successful presidents, governors and mayors have an awareness of what they do not know, making their best decisions when they exhibit intellectual humility. Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute reminds us, “the pandemic shows there are no purely technical solutions for problems that demand political lead...
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