Well that's the article's point, a think tank serves one of the factions of the plutocracy and on the global and national stage public intellectuals have also been replaced by puppets of the plutocracy. They all serve money and people who hold it, just different factions. While at the same time the intellectuals in universities have become more and more divorced from reality, embracing ideologies that are excessively liberal and left leaning rather than centrist.

I think it is still summed up with the statement "Cash is King"

We used to decapitate the king anually and call that taxes.

The King realizing this created a fake person called a corporation that gives the people jobs. Good luck killing any of those.

> Good luck killing any of those.

I don't think we've really tried hard enough.