The plummet to earth of self-styled communist Van Jones, a shooting Tsar in the Obama Administration firmament, prompts one to wonder about this obsession here too with appointing ‘Tsars’ to lead high-profile policy areas.

Thus we are the victims of:

Among others.

Lawks.

Let’s recall the (emphasis added) wise words of Eugene Volokh:

Others have pointed out that having offices called "czars" is an odd naming choice for a democracy. But czars weren’t just authoritarians. They were ultimately authoritarians who left their country far poorer than their more democratic counterparts, lost a world war, and of course paved the way for an even worse system of government.

The label "czar" thus doesn’t historically connect to a model of strongman effectiveness — it connects to a model of strongman failure.

Indeed.