Think Tank Quickies (#328)

• Tino Cuellar is stepping down as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in July after nearly five years.  He'll lead the Center for Advanced Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. 
• Claremonsters (i.e., Claremont Institute fellows) are everywhere in the Trump Administration. By one count at least 70 hold or have held jobs there.  "Unlike other think tanks, Claremont does not churn out policy papers.  Rather, its focus is on history and principle."
• Economist says that the American Enterprise Institute has "faded into irrelevance." 
• The MAGA-friendly think tanks Trump wants to fund. 
• Kevin Rudd, Australian ambassador to the US, will leave his post and lead the Asia Society.  His days were seen to be numbered after President Trump publicly said "I don't like you."
• Washington's Asia experts shift from think tanks to private power firms. 
• The National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) is run by the Edmund Burke Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank led by Yoram Hazony.
• Gene Sperling is starting an Economic Dignity Lab at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. 
• McCain Institute hosted the first international expansion of its Sedona Forum at the International House of Japan in Tokyo. 
• A new polling memo from influential Democratic think tank Searchlight Institute is urging Democrats to "play hardball" over the shutdown and use their "leverage to reform ICE."  [Searchlight is run by Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).]