Part of the problem with “public policy research institutes” — think tanks — is that they become places where extremely bright people spend way too much time worrying about what other people are doing, and how they can be pursuaded (or coerced) into changing their behavior. Witness this from the Sunday Los Angeles Times by Eugene Rumer, a “fellow” at the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies (and which sounds like something only a taxpayer would pay for). It’s about Russia, specifically what the US gummint should do with an increasingly undemocratic Russia. To his credit, Rumer does … Continue reading Making Meddling Harder