Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Addendum
Usually I find Robert Samuelson to be maddeningly "even-handed" in his discussions of policy, refusing to acknowledge that Republican (or Democratic) ideas are just a sham, but this strikes me as a pretty good idea, in general, and not just on the big issue he suggests. Perhaps if our experiment fails, we could get something like this started.
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Samuelson is arguing against a strawman; AEI is already there:
Murray
Lee
Etc.
The problem with Samuelson's suggestion is that (most) thinktanks are not monoliths. They're collections of scholars, who have different opinions. Nobody vets my work to see if I'm consistent with an AEI party line. Murray's solution is wildly different from Lee's or Eberstadt's.
Even on smaller questions, such as the dead Bush social security plan, many at AEI favor personal accounts; others have severe concerns about the public choice consequences of government oversight of a trillion dollars of personal investments.
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