[dennisw]

The author is obviously very high IQ. The internet now allows such people to disseminate powerful essays that dwarf what comes from the punditocracy, TV talking heads, the mediocre minds on your typical newspaper editorial/op-ed page. This man should be advising George Bush

[Tolik]

Yes, he should. I might be wrong, but I have an impression that a choice of advisers for Bush is very accidental: whoever he happened to like. We were lucky with some, and unlucky with others (especially with his dad's old guard creeping in lately).

Correct me if I am wrong, the word "machiavellian" became so negative, that it probably a taboo to admit using any of his wisdom at all.