It’s easy to lose perspective as every day brings ‘unprecedented’ overhaul and new findings of Elon Musk exceptionalism
Mary Bridges is a historian of the 20th-century United States and the Ernest May Fellow in Research and Policy at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her book,, is a finalist for the 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize, presented by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Mr. Moses’s first government position in the 1910s was as a Progressive Era reformer tasked with overhauling New York’s civil service and cleaning up government bureaucracies mired in inefficiency and corruption. Those experiences – combined with his work drafting legislation in Albany – made Mr. Moses a master of both the letter of the law and the sausage-making of government administration.
Mr. Moses’s unique, unelected power stemmed from his quasi-private, quasi-public status in between government and investors. He maintained control of the Triborough Bridge Authority, for example, in part by designing contracts with bondholders that assured his continuing leadership. For decades, Mr. Moses could not be ousted by any particular New York mayor or governor . Today’s infrastructure networks blur the lines between public and private oversight in complex ways.
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