Topic “thinktankery”
Quote of the Day
Think tanks are simply welfare agencies for intellectuals who can’t survive in the marketplace as well as holding pens for political creatures briefly out of office. The Sierra Club should be picketing them over all the innocent trees they’ve killed.
Of course, heh, Business Week reports that Ralph Peters's employer, the New York Post, loses between $15 million to $30 million annually and has to be heavily subsidized by the rest of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in order to buy the paper and ink for the 500,000 copies of the Post that get printed on a daily basis. Think tanks, by contrast (especially think tanks like CNAS, which do not own their own property and watch their assets take the Metro home every night), have to make payroll each month. So I'm not sure who, exactly, isn't hacking it in the marketplace. Or maybe I'm wrong and Ralph Peters has been successful in his campaign to lock up our commanders in Afghanistan for murdering U.S. troops. (h/t @paulmcleary)