An Insurmountable Obstacle...

People say that Nicholas Gvosdev is smart and thoughtful, and that I should read his The Washington Realist. But there is an insurmountable obstacle: Gvosdev is identified as "Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center." I can no more click on such links than I could click on a link to the Henry Wallace Center for the Understanding of Communism, or the Noam Chomsky Center for a Sober Assessment of America's Role in the World, or the Jude Wanniski Center for Econometric Tax Policy Research.

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[piotr]

I just went on a hike with my county treasurer of Democratic party (not his day job); on the way back there were some roadworks and it took some reluctant hesitation before he took a detour using Nixon Rd.

[Linkmeister]

Piffle. Pragmatism uber alles. Hold your nose and jump in.

[Charles]

Brad, you gotta read 'em to refute 'em.

No matter what mindreading skills conservatives claim to possess in divining the thoughts and desires of the rest of us, their arguments seriously falter when it becomes evident they have no ^%$# idea what or who they're attacking.

Having looked at Gvosdev's blog, it looks pretty reasonable to me, Here, try a small spoonful:

" Even more, this is all ties in with 'the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.' The task is Sisyphean, the enemy generalized, the goals unclear, the scope open-ended. The taxing character of U.S. foreign policy betrays signs of morphing into 'imperial over-reach.' And there should be no doubt that we are talking about empire here, albeit in a new form."

Have a sip of milk and try another bite.

[Marcus Portius Cato]

How about the Hoover center ? Some people do good work over there, on economics even, which was not Herbert's strong suit.

[Marcus Portius Cato]

I mean the Hoover institute.

[Evagrius]

I knew Nick when he was an altar server asisting his priest-father in Los Altos, Ca.
Bright lad. I don't know about his poliics.

[dennisS]

...and Reagan International. Waste of a good airport.

[jb]

I can no more click on such links than I could click on a link to the Henry Wallace Center for the Understanding of Communism, or the Noam Chomsky Center for a Sober Assessment of America's Role in the World...

You are missing some sober assesment of America's role in the world.

[Addendum]

Although lately, Noam has been looking better...

[andres]

Come on now, Brad. If you have the sufficient intestinal fortitude to check Luskin's writings and the TNR site for the occasional intellectual garbage cleanup, then you certainly have the cojones to read some actual conspiracy theories or to understand the n-dimensional mathematics needed for supply-side economic theory to work. Don't dork out.