The thousands of students and hundreds of scholars supported by folks like Charles Koch have had their lives enriched, and with that has come a greater appreciation of the remarkable powers of markets in promoting human welfare. We should be thanking these philanthropists for their largess, rather than harass them. And gutless administrations should be condemned for permitting these attacks to occur in an unanswered fashion. People have the right to disagree with the findings of Koch funded scholars and students, but no right to try to silence them.

As everyone must know by now, the Koch brothers, extraordinarily capable entrepreneurs who built America s largest privately-held company, are trying to gain control of the Cato Institute which is the world s largest, most influential libertarian think tank.