It’s the sort of Beltway dodge that’s as natural as breathing to the suits in this white-tablecloth restaurant. But despite the agency badge tucked into his jacket, the tattooed, shaggy-haired, cowboy-boot-wearing scholar is not quite a member of their tribe. With a little prodding and one big caveat—”I don’t represent the FTC in anything I say”—he looks up from his fish stew and deadpans a quietly barbed critique that is vintage Wu.
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