Right Thinking Conservative Think Tanks

The Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies opened its doors in 1982 with seed money from Richard Dennis, Jr., an iconoclastic Chicago commodities trader and Mondale Democrat. The center called itself a “neoliberal” think tank, advocating free markets and a smaller Washington bureaucracy. But unlike its conservative counterparts, the Roosevelt Center trusted government rather than private enterprise to address the ecological crisis and the increasing income gap between the ma...