Since I brought up the Hoover Institution, let me rant a bit more: they make my ass tired.

Fancy attempts to add patinas of respectability to old prejudices are not, I repeat, are not great feats of humanity.

Lipstick on pigs - that’s what so much of the effort of conservative think tanks turn out to be.

Hoover Institution is a classic, perhaps the most classic, example.

The rubes will mistake the use of the language (English) as a great insight into the subject matter (foreign affairs, economics, etc.)

Just because someone has the best words, the biggest words, does not make their assertions any more true than others.