After reading the speech by VD Hanson referred to below by Chris Manion, which was apparently part of a Hoover Institution event in D.C., I was struck at how the neocons have poisoned Hoover. As an economist, I used to have the highest opinion of some of the fine publications coming from Hoover by Milton Friedman, Tom Sowell, Tom Moore, Alvin Rabushka, and others. There are still some fine scholars there, of course, but it seems that a disproportionate share of Hoover’s resources, like AEI’s, go to promote the work of blabbering , ranting imperialists like VD Hanson. His blather … Continue reading Hoover’s Blabbering Imperialist (Or, Is There a Cure for VD?)