As you may have read, departing University of Wisconsin-Madison boss John Wiley has undammed the dark waters that had collected behind his reticence. He wrote a 3,000-word essay for Madison Magazine saying why practically everything wrong with Wisconsin politics can be traced to the state’s leading business lobby.
If you haven’t read the piece, you should. It’s weirdly petulant, almost a little Captain Queeq (though the magazine’s editors, if they do say so themselves, call it “extraordinarily honest and poignant”), but it’s a decent exposition of how a certain slice of the state’s political establishment thinks