In striving to discredit right-wing crackpots, Evan Osnos reminded us why the Left are no slouches on the matter. : “Dad, you have to realize that the Cato Institute doesn’t exist inside the Bush White House.” The latter was relayed to me by Minneapolis investment banker Roger Conant back in 2005. Conant was referencing a conversation with his son, who was a deputy to Josh Bolton, George W. Bush’s then chief-of-staff. At the time I was a fundraiser for the Cato Institute, the world’s leading libertarian organization.