A think tank is a front for an American intelligence agency. That's right--Rubicon starts tonight. The new AMC series following the network's other successful Sunday shows, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, premiers tonight (potentially with back-to-back episodes). I'll blog about it each week here at Think Tanked--a little summer think tank fun couldn't hurt.
The Washington Post had no shortage of think tank appearances in today's edition. Thirdway's Josh Freed and Matt Bennett said it's time for energy reform advocates to learn the lessons from health care reform. CFR's Steven Simon and Ray Takeyh want to know if Obama will use force on Iran. David Cole looks back, eight years after the torture memos, and he's not letting go of AEI's John Yoo. And William G. Gale of the Brookings Institution continues the Five Myths series with the Bush tax cuts.
In the LA Times today, Bruce Reidel, Brookings senior fellow at the Saban Center, wrote in an op-ed that the key word when it comes to Pakistan is "consistency."
In poll after poll, Pakistanis say they do not believe America is a reliable ally. They are right. For more than six decades the United States has had a love-hate relationship with Pakistan, embracing a long succession of military dictators in the country and sending mixed messages about our commitment both to democracy and to foreign aid.
In the New York Times Book Review, Liaquat Ahmed reviewed High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and Damon Linker covered Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint of the Hudson Institute.
Cato's Walter Olson picks up on a potential Department of Transportation-Toyota fiasco.
Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper ditches This Week for Meet the Press. He tried, folks.
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, talking Afghanistan, was the only think tanker on the Sunday morning talk shows.
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