Think Tank Quickies (#381)

• Senior Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett will return to his posts as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and VP/Managing Director of The Lindsey Group.
• Nicol Turner Lee named as new director of Brookings Center for Technology Innovation. 
• Julian Brave NoiseCat, VP of Policy & Strategy for the think tank Data for Progress, has been in touch with Biden's campaign about climate issues and is one of many progressives compiling a list of names for staffing a new executive branch.
• Think tanks must abandon their saviour complex.
• "Manpanels often held in rooms at think tanks I call Splainatoriums."
• Rory Fleming: "Today I thought I should start a stink tank, a think tank that investigates and critiques other think tanks." 
• Brookings has new "How We Rise" blog that offers policy solutions to upend structural racism and inequality. 
• Event: US foundations and think tanks in world politics.
• Asia Pacific Initiative: A Tokyo think tank which organizes exchanges between US and Japanese military officials.
• Are think tanks too "pale, male, and Yale?"