Think Tank Quickies (#394)

• Brookings launches Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic relations.
• Sen. Cortez Masto (D-NV) has raised concerns about foreign influence operations that target think tanks.
  
• North Carolina right-leaning think tanks (John Locke Foundation and Civitas Institute) are merging.
• Hudson's Michael Pillsbury will be chair of DoD's Defense Policy Board.
• Maya Harris, VP-elect Kamala Harris's younger sister, was a senior fellow at CAP.
• Brookings President John Allen and Tsinghua University Center for International Security and Strategy Chair Fu Ying reflect on the output of 15-month closed-door Track 2 dialogue on AI and national security.
  
• Leading candidate to replace Elez Biberaj at VOA is Robert Reilly, director of the Westminster Institute, a think tank in McLean, VA that focuses on "threats from extremism and radical ideologies."
• Iran buys influence at Western think tanks?
  
• "Grateful to have reached the point in the year when think tanks stop spamming me with requests for money they don't need and instead spam with with generic holiday greetings."
• "You can have a PhD and still be an idiot! Education and intelligence are two different things."