re: #122 Henchman Ghazi-808

Exactly. They’re organizations meant to create and put forth propaganda.

There are think tanks who actually do want to educate, rather than propagandize. There’s an enormous difference between, say, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies and, say, the “Ethics and Public Policy Center”, where the editor of the National Affairs article that Killgore is infatuated at works. The latter self-describes as:

Founded in 1976, the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Washington, D.C.’s premier institute dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.

As with anything, just because something is called a ‘think tank’ it shouldn’t gain or lose any credibility; it should be judged on its output.