“I’m having everyone in the transition read it,” Mr. Bannon continued, later clarifying that “everyone” meant several people. But the implied irony was not that the advisers weren’t impressive men (always men, usually men who had attended Harvard). Mr. Bannon called Breitbart News under his editorial stewardship “a platform for the alt-right” — a movement whose tenets include white nationalism and anti-Semitism. The finding “reflected the genuine expertise of the government from deep within its bowels,” Mr. Halberstam writes. Mr. Rostow was an economist, and in foreign affairs Mr. Halberstam shows him to be a dilettante.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2017 19:30 UTC