Think Tank Quickies (#318)

• Evaluating increases in think tank executive compensation, by Ignacio Delcavoli.
• What does a think tank have to do with your life? (via Rich Larsen, President of Utah-based Sutherland Inst.)
• Think tanks stress importance of college completion.
• Russia's Sputnik: DC think tank experts paid to play by companies, foreign states (interviewing Max Blumenthal).
• Iowa county to hold public "think tanks."
• John Bolton's new NSC chief of staff worked at Center for Security Policy.
• "My mom just asked me if working at a think tank means I get a thinking cap.  'Does it have a propellor on top?'"
• Are you single, taken, or a think tank?
• Cato scholar: "There oughta be a German word for when cable news covers a complex area of policy wonkery but interviews a person who clearly has no knowledge of the subject and just Googled it before the hit." 
• Dinesh D'Souza, formerly a fellow at AEI and Hoover, pardoned by President Trump.