In their recent podcast, Adam Johnson asks that journalists and “Think Tanks” dislose the interests of their funders, arguing
that if they did, most think tanks would go away because the enterprise serves as a giant information laundering operation:
This is a very liberal demand which is like can you at least disclose the people know and I think that’s really where you give the game away because if they did that they would be far far less funded and far less influential because they kind of nominal or widely perceived neutrality or or kind of academia sheen or branding is what gives them power