"W" as in wonk.(Brief article)
American Prospect, The, June, 2006 by Rosenfeld, Sam
IN MAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED THE SEMI-SURREAL news that George W. Bush, mulling his legacy, is hatching plans to "create a public policy center with his presidential library after he leaves office in 2009." No other presidential library has such a policy center, and the notion that Bush would be the first president to become a think tank maven struck many as a bit odd.
Even leaving aside Bush's own personal intellectual curiosity (or lack thereof), his administration has something of a well-earned reputation for aggressive skepticism regarding the analyses of ...
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