I appreciated the obvious collaborative effort at the think tank. You could tell this from the relationship of our speaker with his colleague. I was surprised to hear of the collaborations with other think thanks from across the pond and over party lines. However, when there are so many think tanks on the conservative side of the aisle it only makes sense that you would need to work with one along the way in order to get your agenda completed. Our speaker supported the readings assertions that think tanks attract all kinds of people and professions. This was represented by the specialties from the professionals we met with at the think tank. One was focused on political theory and the other on analyzing data. Our speaker agreed with the four tropes discussed in the reading, but added a fifth type of person: the ideologically driven one. Although I understand that there are several ideological think tanks (particularly for conservatives and libertarians), to add those who are ideol...