The most ridiculously named conference the University of Wisconsin has held in many years went off without a hitch Thursday, as a crowd of elitists put on their blinders and whined about how their cherished illusions are being challenged.
The “Free Trade Under Threat” session at Grainger Hall, which was promoted by the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, the UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research and the Madison International Trade Association, featured as its whiner-in-chief Paul Blustein, of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.