That's the news from the Chicago Tribune. I'm interested to hear whether any environmentalists are going to be rattled by this choice. Sunstein is an ingenious scholar, and continues the whole "best and brightest" motif of the Obama administration--so welcome after so many years of Bush anti-intellectualism. But on the other hand, some of Sunstein's views on regulation are controversial, although certainly very thoughtful. Important question: Will he roll back the Bush administration's overuse of the Data Quality Act? By the way, I haven't read all of Sunstein's books, but I have read Republic.com, and it's really excellent and thought provoking. I think a lot of what we see in the blogosphere today--the grouping together of people into like-minded online groups (like the ScienceBlogs community to significant extent) where they then become ever stronger in their convictions--was predicted by Sunstein back in 2001. It seems to me this book is very necessary reading today.
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