Thinking about Think Tanks

Tevi Troy writes,

If donors see and use think tanks as pawns in a political war, the value of their product will be diminished in the eyes of the public, journalists and senior government officials.

Charles Murray does not think that the Kochs have put enough into Cato to deserve the level of control they are asking. As I wrote in my first post on this topic, I would think that other donors would want to have a more representative board. What's wrong with this picture, in my view, is that the dispute being played out in public is between Kochs and [some] Cato staff, rather than between the Kochs and other donors.

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