It’s a pleasure to welcome my colleague Andrew Sabl to the Reality-Based Community. He’s already been a presence here in the form of my posting of his emails to me, and I’m delighted he’s agreed to cut out the middle-man and speak for himself.
Andy is the resident political theorist in our public policy department, and the author of Ruling Passions
The policy of the RBC is to grow only by adding members whose addition improves the average quality of the group. Obviously, that’s a self-limiting process, since every new addition raises the bar for the next. If I weren’t here to keep the average down, new additions would be virtually impossible.