Government by Crackpots

Morning briefing:

Paul Krugman on Laurie Mylroie in today’s New York Times…

Get Me Rewrite!,

Peter Bergen in the Washington Monthly…

Laurie Mylroie: The Neocons’
Favorite Conspiracy Theorist,

and Cecil Adams in the Chicago Reader on…

Leo Strauss and
the Neocon Crackpots.

Strauss lectured on Plato at the University of Chicago.  For more on Plato and philosophy at the University of Chicago, see the classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.