From the article: "What will happen then, when the conservative bloc prevails? The alarmist view is that the E.P.A. couldn’t have the power to decide how stringent pollution standards should be. The F.D.A. couldn’t have the authority to approve or deny applications to sell new medical drugs. The Department of Education couldn’t make rules for colleges and universities. The Department of the Interior couldn’t govern snow mobiles in national parks. The S.E.C. couldn’t regulate financial firms or securities. The F.C.C. couldn’t issue rules on net neutrality or Internet service providers. In sum, we would dwell in a world without the federal law that governs our lives. .....very few of us actually want to live in that world"

Uh, maybe very few in the world of the New Yorker, but a lot of that sounds just fine with me. I'm tired of these federal agencies being able to rule by fiat, enact ignorant and often harmful regulations with the force of law.