The extermination of sparrows in Maoist China triggered a famine that killed millions, exposing how expert-driven policy, untethered from market feedback, can lead to catastrophic unintended consequences.

In the U.S., similar logic surfaces in progressive promises like free buses, a $30 minimum wage, and rent freezes, ideas gaining steam in New York under Mamdani, backed by voices like Robert Reich.

But when economic incentives are replaced with ideology, the result isn’t fairness, it’s scarcity, decay, and dysfunction.

A separate storm brews in Washington, where secret subpoenas and the “Arctic Frost” scandal raise new alarms about judicial overreach and weaponized bureaucracy.

If both sides start playing by the same lawless rules, what happens to the rule of law?

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