One thing I like to do when I see an article like this is look up: 1. Where it's published 2. Who published it 3. Which think thank did it 4. Who's paying for

One thing I like to do when I see an article like this is look up: 1. Where it's published 2. Who published it 3. Which think thank did it 4. Who's paying for it Econlib is "The Library of Economics and Liberty". These days "Liberty" has a very clear right-wing association. Cool, let's dig further. This website is owned by Liberty Fund Inc., self-described as "a private educational foundation established to foster thought and discussion of enduring issues pertaining to liberty". There's out think thank. Let's find out who's involved with it. From Wikipedia: "Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals" Found the libertarian in the room! They even mention Alexis de Tocqueville in the article! Let's keep going. "In his book The Assault on Reason, former U.S. Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were Republican administration appointees. Gore suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions"." There you go. File under junk.