Back in the hey day of Blair's administration, the phrase "what works, works" was used to explain "evidence based policy making" a third way friendly approach.

Back in the hey day of Blair's administration, the phrase "what works, works" was used to explain "evidence based policy making" a third way friendly approach. This has definitely lost its shine as Blair and Clinton have yet to be re-re-discovered as before their time thinkers (#). But this disdain for evidence tends to lead to the triumph of "common sense" - policies actively pandering to biases in the voters And this seems like one of those awful ideas that might just gain traction. It's a commune, a Kibbutz. A cult on a farm in Nebraska. It's idealism not looking down at the muddy ground underneath. God it's what I tried to create when I was an undergraduate. Let's not go there. (#) Trust me, everything goes round in cycles