Cato's growing liberal bent is corrected with the resignation of two of its own.

David Frum spills the beans in the following story. This blog has not used Cato for much of anything, noting a liberal trend in that institutes publications. We found no one discussing this matter, but we made note of the problem, nonetheless. Sure enough, there has been a problem and today, that problem was announced as resolved.

Frum writes:

The summer’s biggest inside-Washington story was the abrupt and simultaneous departure of co-authors Brink Lindsey and Will Wilkinson from the Cato Institute.

Lindsey was Cato’s vice president for research; Wilkinson a Cato scholar. They were working together on a book arguing for a new political approach fusing libertarianism and liberalism – a concept that Cato has previously endorsed on issues like drug control, foreign policy, and sexual freedom.

Lindsey and Wilkinson missed the memo announcing that Cato was going all-in with the Tea Party movement. In early July, Lindsey negatively reviewed at the liberal American Prospect website a new book by American Enterprise Institute president, Arthur Brooks. Brooks had provided an intellectual manifesto for the Tea Party, arguing that the United States now faced a culture-dividing battle over the continued existence of the free enterprise system. Lindsey’s view: “The attempt to turn economic policy disputes into a populist cultural crusade rests on deep-seated confusion about the nature of those disputes and how best to effect constructive policy change.” . . . . . YOU CAN READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE. >>>>>