levies, and his fate taught his party to stick to Peter Pan economics. Obama feigned interest in leaving Neverland a few times but, through 2014, continued to govern in denial of the unpleasant, and worsening, fiscal realities.

Complicating life for liberals is the bright light the Obama administration shined on another facet of big government: its incompetence. With the spectacularly inept rollout of Obamacare, not to mention ancillary scandals at Veterans Affairs and the IRS, the hope of demonstrating once and for all the ethical and intellectual superiority of modern, liberal government suffered an unforgettable setback. The authoritative (and need I add, authoritarian) obscurity of the administrative state had been pierced. This issue, the increasingly visible incoherence, disability, and corruption of the state apparatus itself, will loom large inThe Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier was a highly influential proponent of the modernist principle of rationalization in furniture. He used modern industrial methods to create standardized designs based on the manufacturing and design concepts of automobiles or ocean liners. He described the house as a "machine for living in," and referred to domestic furnishings as equipment. This chair, designed along with two other models with his associates Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, encapsulates these principles. Called basculant because of its pivoting back support, the chair was ergonomically designed to the proportions of the human body. Its simple form, reduced to essentials and made of industrial tubular steel and canvas, reflect Le Corbusier's concept of furniture as equipment. The chair was used to furnish several of his most influential