It’s obvious to anyone not pretending otherwise: the consultant-industrial complex that props up modern government is broken. Not broken like a vase fallen from a shelf—broken like a machine still running but long since severed from its original design, whirring and wheezing under the weight of obsolete incentives and institutional amnesia. Governments don’t need more 90-page PowerPoints from firms who bill by the hour and dilute their insights into the safety of jargon. What they need—what w...