Pat Gunning asked:
"Does anybody from the Center have good answers to the general
thrust of my questions? Or, in different terms, has Soros funding
turned the "Center" to the left?"

As our former Duke colleague Martin Bronfenbrenner was simultaneously
a member of the Mt. Pelerin Society and the Union for Radical
Political Economy, we (the CHOPE Fellows) recently put Gunning's idea
to a vote. We decided that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we
would be pleased to act as members of a broad left-wing conspiracy to
turn America into a French-loving high taxation socialist state, while
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays we would take part in the vast
right-wing conspiracy to arm America and send all the leftist liberals
back to Russia. We also decided that on Sundays we would drink beer
and watch football.




-- 
E. Roy Weintraub
Professor of Economics
Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
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