American Enterprise Institute (AEI),  the highly regarded Washington think tank has named Arthur Brooks as it's eleventh president. Brooks replaces Christopher DeMuth who wraps a more than two decade run in the job. Here is a link to the press release announcing his appointment.A short look at Dr. Brooks CV shows him to most assuredly qualified to lead this esteemed organization. With all due respect, his principal scholarship seems to me rather amorphic pop social science. Captured in his book Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism"  Dr. Brooks endeavors to verbalize and analyze the compassionate conservativism abstraction. Evidently, he and his publisher managed to get the book a good deal of attention, including an invitation to the White House. This is great if you aspire to be to social science and economics like Dr. Phil is to psychology and Dan Brown to theology....(Read Full Post)