Story Time With David Brooks and Paul Ryan

http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/03/story-time-with-david-brooks-a

When Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) squared off against New York Times columnist David Brooks at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday, the ostensible topic of debate was “How much government is good government?” But for a debate that supposedly centered on the proper size of government there was little jostling over limits to government’s size. Instead, the participants grappled with a different question: Is determining the correct role for government a matter of finding the right policy or the right narrative?