State Capacity and Government Reform – with Don Kettl

Don Kettl — prolific scholar of public administration — joins Danny Buerkli talk about state capacity and government reform. They discuss what DOGE got right (and what it didn't), whether gradual government is possible at all, why Operation Warp Speed was so unreasonably effective, and what lessons we should learn from Paul Volcker. 

What is High Variance with Danny Buerkli?

High Variance is an interview podcast about a world that has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. Host Danny Buerkli speaks with public intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and technologists to ask what is going on and how we should respond.