Neo-Hooverite performance art

It's appropriate that this story appears in the NYT's Arts section, not Business or Politics.

This week competing theories about the Depression and the New Deal were once again on display at a conference at the Council on Foreign Relations’ New York headquarters, co-hosted by the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, and partly organized by Ms. Shlaes.

Didn't the CFR used to be a respected organization?